CVE-2017-0358

ntfs-3g: Modprobe influence vulnerability via environment variables

High · published April 13, 2018

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
2%
Percentile
82.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02189 · 82.2th percentile
Published
2018-04-13T15:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 APR 15:00Z
    ntfs-3g: Modprobe influence vulnerability via environment variables
    cvelistv5