CVE-2017-0358
ntfs-3g: Modprobe influence vulnerability via environment variables
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.8 High
- Published
- Apr 13, 2018
- Updated
- Dec 4, 2025
- Reserved
- Nov 29, 2016
Description
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.8 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
ntfs-3gntfs-3g |
|
References
- GLSA-201702-10vendor-advisory
- DSA-3780vendor-advisory
- 41240exploit
- 41356exploit
- 95987vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20170201 CVE-2017-0358 ntfs-3g: modprobe influence vulnerability via environment variablesmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20170203 Re: CVE-2017-0358 ntfs-3g: modprobe influence vulnerability via environment variablesmailing-list
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