CVE-2017-0358

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Jann Horn of Google Project Zero discovered that NTFS-3G, a read-write NTFS driver for FUSE, does not scrub the environment before executing modprobe with elevated privileges. A local user can take advantage of this flaw for local root privilege escalation.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-269

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
ntfs-3gntfs-3gn/a

References

Timeline

Published
Apr 13, 2018
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2017-0358: High severity, CVSS 7.8 | Vulnix