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CVE-2011-1836

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-02-15 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

utils/ecryptfs-recover-private in ecryptfs-utils before 90 does not establish a subdirectory with safe permissions, which might allow local users to bypass intended access restrictions via standard filesystem operations during the recovery process.

Affected products

• Ecryptfs-Utils: through 89; 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67 (+20)
• Ecryptfs Utils: 58, 59, 60, 61

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00009.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1188-1
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729465
• https://launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+download
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00009.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1188-1
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729465
• https://launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+download

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