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CVE-2015-5350 Garden Nstar vulnerability

CVE-2015-5350 Garden Nstar vulnerability

Severity

High

Vendor

Cloud Foundry Foundation

Versions Affected

  • Garden versions 0.22.0-0.329.0

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in the garden-linux nstar executable that allows access to files on the host system. By staging an application on Cloud Foundry using Diego and Garden installations with a malicious custom buildpack an end user could read files on the host system that the BOSH-created vcap user has permissions to read and then package them into their app droplet.

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is high unless otherwise noted.

  • All Garden versions prior to v0.330.0

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:

  • The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry Deployments using Diego and Garden upgrade to Garden Linux Release v0.330.0 or higher. Diego release v0.1444.0 includes Garden Linux v.0.330.0.

Credit

Julian Friedman

Will Pragnell

Eric Malm

References

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Cloud Foundry Foundation Security Team, AUTHOR

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