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CVE-2017-0358: ntfs-3g: Modprobe influence vulnerability via environment variables

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-04-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

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.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Tuxera NTFS-3G: through 2016.2.22

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/04/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95987
• https://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=148594671929354&w=2
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-10
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3780
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41240/
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41356/
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/04/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95987
• https://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=148594671929354&w=2
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-10
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3780

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