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CVE-2017-0358

ntfs-3g: Modprobe influence vulnerability via environment variables

CVSS 7.8 HIGHEPSS 2.3%CWE-269
Vexday Risk Score
41Attention
SSVC decision (CISA)
Attend
PoC available → attend closely
CVSS 7.8EPSS 2.3%KEV nãoPoC públicaPatch referenciado
Lifecycle
03 Feb 2017Public PoC
13 Apr 2018Published on NVD
Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.
Jann Horn of Google Project Zero discovered that NTFS-3G, a read-write NTFS driver for FUSE, does not scrub the environment before executing modprobe with elevated privileges. A local user can take advantage of this flaw for local root privilege escalation.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
ntfs-3g · ntfs-3g
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