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CVE-2017-0358

ntfs-3g: Modprobe influence vulnerability via environment variables

CVSS 7.8 HIGHEPSS 2.3%CWE-269
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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