CVE-2020-8907 SUSE CVE security@suse.de SUSE Security Team SUSE CVE-2020-8907 Interim 1 30 2025-05-17T02:23:41Z current 2021-05-30T14:38:13Z 2025-05-17T02:23:41Z cve-database/bin/generate-cvrf-cve.pl 2020-12-27T01:00:00Z CVE-2020-8907 A vulnerability in Google Cloud Platform's guest-oslogin versions between 20190304 and 20200507 allows a user that is only granted the role "roles/compute.osLogin" to escalate privileges to root. Using their membership to the "docker" group, an attacker with this role is able to run docker and mount the host OS. Within docker, it is possible to modify the host OS filesystem and modify /etc/groups to gain administrative privileges. All images created after 2020-May-07 (20200507) are fixed, and if you cannot update, we recommend you edit /etc/group/security.conf and remove the "docker" user from the OS Login entry. The CVRF data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0). https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2020-July/007139.html E-Mail link for SUSE-SU-2020:1934-1 https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2020-August/007248.html E-Mail link for SUSE-SU-2020:2200-1 https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/IVJLT7VD4IXF6BKE2FPGIOJQTMKAC6Z5/ E-Mail link for openSUSE-SU-2020:0996-1 https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/QL6WIX4PNU5XVJCZJX66JTLS2DSJSYZC/ E-Mail link for openSUSE-SU-2020:1014-1 https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/ SUSE Security Ratings Public Cloud Module for SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 15 SP1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 15 SP2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 15 SP3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 12 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module 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Using their membership to the "docker" group, an attacker with this role is able to run docker and mount the host OS. Within docker, it is possible to modify the host OS filesystem and modify /etc/groups to gain administrative privileges. All images created after 2020-May-07 (20200507) are fixed, and if you cannot update, we recommend you edit /etc/group/security.conf and remove the "docker" user from the OS Login entry. 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