Froxlor before 2.3.12 Privilege Escalation via SSH Key Sync
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.
CVE-2026-100713
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
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"
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-100713
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Publisher severity
high
Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics
- Event
- #2432 · Revision 1
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