CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-16638

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2017-11-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-11-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-732

Description

The Gentoo net-misc/vde package before version 2.3.2-r4 may allow members of the "qemu" group to gain root privileges by creating a hard link in a directory on which "chown" is called recursively by the OpenRC service script.

Affected configurations

• vde project vde (< 2.3.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness

References