CVE-2017-16638 describes a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in the Gentoo net-misc/vde package before version 2.3.2-r4, affecting vde_project vde. This flaw allows members of the "qemu" group to gain root privileges by exploiting a hard link vulnerability during a recursive chown operation within the OpenRC service script. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), it presents a high-impact, low-complexity attack vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vde_project:vde:*:r4:*:*:*:gentoo:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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