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FreeBSD: VID-1B15A554-C981-11ED-BB39-901B0E9408DC (CVE-2023-28436): tailscale -- security vulnerability in Tailscale SSH

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FreeBSD: VID-1B15A554-C981-11ED-BB39-901B0E9408DC (CVE-2023-28436): tailscale -- security vulnerability in Tailscale SSH

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/22/2023
Created
03/24/2023
Added
03/23/2023
Modified
04/03/2023

Description

Details for this vulnerability have not been published by NIST at this point. Descriptions from software vendor advisories for this issue are provided below.

From VID-1B15A554-C981-11ED-BB39-901B0E9408DC:

Tailscale team reports:

A vulnerability identified in the implementation of Tailscale SSH in FreeBSD

allowed commands to be run with a higher privilege group ID than that specified

by Tailscale SSH access rules.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-tailscale

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