CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-2544

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2021-05-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-05-27
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-668

Description

Mounting /proc filesystem via chroot command silently mounts it in read-write mode. The user could bypass the chroot environment and gain write access to files, he would never have otherwise.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-668 Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere weakness

References