Vulnerability in Ntfs-3g
CVE-2007-5159
The ntfs-3g package before 1.913-2.fc7 in Fedora 7, and an ntfs-3g package in Ubuntu 7.10/Gutsy, assign incorrect permissions (setuid root) to mount.ntfs-3g, which allows local users with fuse group membership to read from and write to arbitrary block devices, possibly involving a file descriptor leak.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.6 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (29.1th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 29th percentile — 29.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Ntfs-3g
- Red Hat Fedora — versions 7
- Ubuntu Linux — versions 7.10
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00368.html (vendor-advisory)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2007-September/msg00163.html (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/26938 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)