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Froxlor before 2.3.12 Privilege Escalation via SSH Key Sync

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

Froxlor 2.3.10 and earlier contain a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition in the SSH key synchronization cron (lib/Froxlor/Cron/System/SshKeys.php, SshKeys::generateFiles). The containment/symlink validation performed by FileDir::makeCorrectDir()/makeCorrectFile() is done only at check time; the live filesystem path is re-resolved as root at write time (file_put_contents with FILE_APPEND|LOCK_EX, followed by chmod/chown/chgrp), with a database round-trip and file reads in between, and no path or file-descriptor pinning (no O_NOFOLLOW or openat2(RESOLVE_NO_SYMLINKS)). On installations where the non-default setting system.allow_customer_shell=1 grants customers local shell access, a customer can atomically swap their ~/.ssh directory for a symlink after the check and before the write, causing the root-run cron to append the customer's public key to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys and to chown /root/.ssh to the customer, resulting in full root compromise of the panel host. The cron re-runs on every interval, allowing unlimited attempts. This is a residual race that bypasses the check-time fix introduced for GHSA-mq5v-... . The issue is fixed in Froxlor 2.3.12.

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CVE-2026-100713

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Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-100713

froxlor

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product

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[
  {
    "vendor": "froxlor",
    "product": "froxlor",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "2.3.12",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "2.3.12",
        "versionType": "semver"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  }
]
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CVE-2026-100713

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high

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Event
#2432 · Revision 1
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