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CVE-2011-4099

• 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: 2014-02-08 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The capsh program in libcap before 2.22 does not change the current working directory when the --chroot option is specified, which allows local users to bypass the chroot restrictions via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Libcap: through 2.21; 2.00, 2.01, 2.02, 2.03, 2.04, 2.05 (+15)

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1694.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722694
• https://sites.google.com/site/fullycapable/release-notes-for-libcap/releasenotesfor222
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1694.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722694
• https://sites.google.com/site/fullycapable/release-notes-for-libcap/releasenotesfor222

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