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CVE-2017-5226

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-03-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

When executing a program via the bubblewrap sandbox, the nonpriv session can escape to the parent session by using the TIOCSTI ioctl to push characters into the terminal's input buffer, allowing an attacker to escape the sandbox.

Affected products

• Projectatomic Bubblewrap: through 0.1.5

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/10/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/17/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97260
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1411811
• https://github.com/projectatomic/bubblewrap/commit/d7fc532c42f0e9bf427923bab85433282b3e5117
• https://github.com/projectatomic/bubblewrap/issues/142
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/14/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/10/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/17/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97260
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1411811
• https://github.com/projectatomic/bubblewrap/commit/d7fc532c42f0e9bf427923bab85433282b3e5117

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