Bug 2274984 (CVE-2024-32019)

Summary:	CVE-2024-32019 netdata: privilege escalation and command execution
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	ybuenos
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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Description ybuenos 2024-04-14 14:22:57 UTC

Netdata is an open source observability tool. In affected versions the `ndsudo` tool shipped with affected versions of the Netdata Agent allows an attacker to run arbitrary programs with root permissions. The `ndsudo` tool is packaged as a `root`-owned executable with the SUID bit set. It only runs a restricted set of external commands, but its search paths are supplied by the `PATH` environment variable. This allows an attacker to control where `ndsudo` looks for these commands, which may be a path the attacker has write access to. This may lead to local privilege escalation. This vulnerability has been addressed in versions 1.45.3 and 1.45.2-169. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/17377
https://github.com/netdata/netdata/security/advisories/GHSA-pmhq-4cxq-wj93

Comment 1 ybuenos 2024-04-14 14:23:14 UTC

Created netdata tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2274986]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2274985]

Comment 2 Didier Fabert (tartare) 2024-04-15 21:28:14 UTC

netdata 1.45.3 has already be pushed for all fedora (38, 39, 40 and rawhide) and epel (epel8 and epel9) repositories, and before this bug report.