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CVE-2017-0358
ntfs-3g: Modprobe influence vulnerability via environment variables
High7.8EPSS 2.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- debian
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
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 18% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
- privilege escalation
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management (opens in a new tab)
Affected products
ntfs-3g · ntfs-3g
- affected n/a
References (7)
- GLSA-201702-10 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- DSA-3780 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 41240 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 41356 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 95987 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20170201 CVE-2017-0358 ntfs-3g: modprobe influence vulnerability via environment variables (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20170203 Re: CVE-2017-0358 ntfs-3g: modprobe influence vulnerability via environment variables (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_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)
Record last updated .