CVE-2007-5964

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-12-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-16

Description

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.

Affected products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 5.0

References

http://osvdb.org/40441
http://secunia.com/advisories/28052
http://secunia.com/advisories/28097
http://secunia.com/advisories/28456
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019087
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:009
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1128.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1129.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26841
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=409701
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=410031
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10158

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