FUSE, possibly 2.8.5 and earlier, allows local users to create mtab entries with arbitrary pathnames, and consequently unmount any…

Description

FUSE, possibly 2.8.5 and earlier, allows local users to create mtab entries with arbitrary pathnames, and consequently unmount any filesystem, via a symlink attack on the parent directory of the mountpoint of a FUSE filesystem, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0789.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

9.8% · top 4.4% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.8.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-59 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-59 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (20)

• http://www.halfdog.net/Security/FuseTimerace/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• USN-1045-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• 42965 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• fuse-fusermount-tool-dos(62986) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 20101102 fusermount: Unmount any filesystem (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20101104 CVE request: fuse (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• ADV-2011-0302 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651598 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• ADV-2011-0181 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• SUSE-SR:2011:005 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651183 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 42961 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/670622 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=602333 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 44623 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20101105 Re: CVE request: fuse (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• USN-1045-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• FEDORA-2011-0854 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• 70520 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• MDVSA-2013:155 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 03:26 UTC.