CVE-2017-0358 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in NTFS-3G, a read-write NTFS driver for FUSE, affecting Debian and Tuxera products. The flaw allows a local user to gain root privileges because NTFS-3G fails to sanitize the environment before executing modprobe with elevated permissions. Rated 7.8 HIGH, this vulnerability is easily exploitable locally with low attack complexity, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not on the KEV catalog or Hot List, public exploit code and Metasploit modules are available, yet it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2016.2.22CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:tuxera:ntfs-3g:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.