CVE-2017-0358 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 7.55% · 91.8th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
7.55%
91.8th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSntfs-3g0, 1:2014.2.15AR.3-3, 1:2015.3.14AR.1-1

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