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CVE-2015-1342

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 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: 2015-12-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

LXCFS before 0.12 does not properly enforce directory escapes, which might allow local users to gain privileges by (1) querying or (2) updating a cgroup.

Affected products

• Canonical Lxcfs: through 0.11
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 15.04, 15.10

References

• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2813-1
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxcfs/+bug/1508481
• https://github.com/lxc/lxcfs/commit/a8b6c3e0537e90fba3c55910fd1b7229d54a60a7
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2813-1
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxcfs/+bug/1508481
• https://github.com/lxc/lxcfs/commit/a8b6c3e0537e90fba3c55910fd1b7229d54a60a7

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