CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-17448

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-12-07 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-12-07
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-862

Description

net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.4 does not require the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for new, get, and del operations, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions because the nfnl_cthelper_list data structure is shared across all net namespaces.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.14.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness

References