> Note: It is uncertain whether this constitutes a vulnerability or should be filed as an issue instead.
In the SSH configuration documentation, the sudoer line that was suggested can be escalated to edit any files in the system.
The following line were suggested for addition in the sudoers file:
terraform ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/tee /var/lib/vz/*
But this is highly insecure as the folder can be escaped using ../ and any files can be edited on the system.
Using a terraform user with the previously mentioned line in the /etc/sudoers file, a /etc/sudoers.d/sudo file can be added using this command:
echo "ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" | tee /var/lib/vz/../../../etc/sudoers.d/sudo
This grants access to the full root of the node.
This breaches the access limits of the Terraform user.
Use a strict regex on the command to allow only the names that should be pushed by this user.
Example for cloudinit yaml files:
terraform ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/tee /var/lib/vz/snippets/[A-Za-z0-9-]*\\.yaml
| Score | Percentile |
|---|---|
| 0.03% | 8.45% |
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.7 | 4.0 | — |
|
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| GHSA | GHSA-gwch-7m8v-7544 ↗ |
| CVE | CVE-2026-25499 ↗ |
Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | First patched | Vulnerable functions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| go | github.com/bpg/terraform-provider-proxmox | < 0.93.1 | 0.93.1 | — |