Access Restriction Bypass Affecting ecryptfs package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.37% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ECRYPTFS-2374438
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed22 Jan 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Jan 2016

CVE-2016-1572  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for ecryptfs.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass mount.ecryptfs_private.c in eCryptfs-utils does not validate mount destination filesystem types, which allows local users to gain privileges by mounting over a nonstandard filesystem, as demonstrated by /proc/$pid.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1