CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-5940
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-02-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/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-269
Description
Firejail before 0.9.44.6 and 0.9.38.x LTS before 0.9.38.10 LTS does not comprehensively address dotfile cases during its attempt to prevent accessing user files with an euid of zero, which allows local users to conduct sandbox-escape attacks via vectors involving a symlink and the --private option. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-5180.
Affected configurations
• firejail project firejail (>= 0.9.38 <= 0.9.38.10)
• firejail project firejail (>= 0.9.40 <= 0.9.44.6)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/31/16 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96221 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://firejail.wordpress.com/download-2/release-notes/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/commit/38d418505e9ee2d326557e5639e8da49c298858f Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/commit/903fd8a0789ca3cc3c21d84cd0282481515592ef Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/commit/b8a4ff9775318ca5e679183884a6a63f3da8f863 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-03 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/31/16 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96221 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://firejail.wordpress.com/download-2/release-notes/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/commit/38d418505e9ee2d326557e5639e8da49c298858f Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/commit/903fd8a0789ca3cc3c21d84cd0282481515592ef Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/commit/b8a4ff9775318ca5e679183884a6a63f3da8f863 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-03 Third Party Advisory