CVE-2021-3626 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Multipass for Windows versions prior to 1.7.0. It allowed any local process to connect to the localhost TCP control socket, enabling unauthorized mounts from the host to a guest, thereby facilitating privilege escalation. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a severe impact with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise, requiring only low privileges and no user interaction for exploitation. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:canonical:multipass:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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