Improper Input Validation Affecting ecryptfs package, versions [86,99)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.41% (33rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ECRYPTFS-2374437
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 Dec 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Dec 2019

CVE-2012-3409  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ecryptfs to version 99 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation ecryptfs-utils: suid helper does not restrict mounting filesystems with nosuid,nodev which creates a possible privilege escalation

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1