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.
2018-04-13T15:29:00.397
2024-11-21T03:02:49.720
Modified
CVSSv3.0: 7.8 (HIGH)
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
3.9
10.0
Type | Vendor | Product | Version/Range | Vulnerable? |
---|---|---|---|---|
Application | tuxera | ntfs-3g | ≤ 2016.2.22 | Yes |
Operating System | debian | debian_linux | 8.0 | Yes |