CVE-2006-0228 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in grsecurity versions prior to 2.1.8. Specifically, the RBAC functionality fails to properly revoke admin privileges from a service if an administrator creates it and then exits their shell without unauthenticating, leading to the service restarting with elevated permissions. This local vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.2, indicating high severity with complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:grsecurity:grsecurity_kernel_patch:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:grsecurity:grsecurity_kernel_patch:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:grsecurity:grsecurity_kernel_patch:2.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:grsecurity:grsecurity_kernel_patch:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:grsecurity:grsecurity_kernel_patch:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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