Privilege escalation in Containers Fuse-overlayfs

CVE-2026-52791

fuse-overlayfs is an implementation of overlayfs in FUSE for rootless containers. Prior to 1.17, the release-1.x C branch preserves SUID and SGID mode bits in main.c during open(O_TRUNC) and truncate handling on a copied-up file, allowing…

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Weakness classification (CWE)

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