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NetBird -- Local Privilege Escalation via Unauthenticated IPC Socket

Affected packages
0.5.0 < netbird < 0.76.0

Details

VuXML ID ef71114e-8c1c-11f1-a221-3c7c3fba4204
Discovery 2026-07-29
Entry 2026-07-30

The NetBird Team reports:

The NetBird client daemon exposes its gRPC control interface to any local process with no authentication, in all versions from 0.5.0 (March 2022) to 0.75.1. On Linux, macOS and FreeBSD the interface is a Unix domain socket (/var/run/netbird.sock) with world-readable/writable permissions (0666). On Windows it is a loopback TCP listener (127.0.0.1:41731), where the transport carries no caller identity at all. Any unprivileged local user can connect and invoke all daemon RPCs without credentials.

References

URL https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/security/advisories/GHSA-qcpp-8vwj-hhwr