Vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux

CVE-2007-5964

The default configuration of autofs 5 in some Linux distributions, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, omits the nosuid option for the hosts (/net filesystem) map, which allows local users to gain privileges via a setuid program on a remote NFS server.

EPSS: 0.005 (38.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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