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CVE-2017-5985
lxc-user-nic in Linux Containers (LXC) allows local users with a lxc-usernet allocation to create network interfaces on the host and…
Low3.3EPSS 0.34%
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- mitre
Description
lxc-user-nic in Linux Containers (LXC) allows local users with a lxc-usernet allocation to create network interfaces on the host and choose the name of those interfaces by leveraging lack of netns ownership check.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Low3.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.34% · top 73% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.3.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (7)
- [lxc-devel] 20170309 Security fix for CVE-2017-5985 (lxc-user-nic) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/16af238036a5464ae8f2420ed3af214f0de875f9 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 96777 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1654676 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-3224-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20170309 LXC: CVE-2017-5985: lxc-user-nic didn't verify network namespace ownership (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:1481 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
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