CVE-2017-0358
HIGH7.8EPSS 8.3%ntfs-3g - security update
Published: 4/13/2018Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/ntfs-3gfrom 0, < 1:2016.2.22AR.1-4
- Debian/ntfs-3gfrom 0, < 1:2012.1.15AR.5-2.1+deb7u3
- Debian/ntfs-3gfrom 0, < 1:2014.2.15AR.2-1+deb8u3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |