Improper Access Control Affecting netblue30/firejail package, versions [0.9.38,0.9.38.8)(0.9.38.8,0.9.44.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.74% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NETBLUE30FIREJAIL-2369387
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Feb 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Feb 2017

CVE-2017-5180  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade netblue30/firejail to version 0.9.38.8, 0.9.44.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control. Firejail before 0.9.44.4 and 0.9.38.x LTS before 0.9.38.8 LTS does not consider the .Xauthority case during its attempt to prevent accessing user files with an euid of zero, which allows local users to conduct sandbox-escape attacks via vectors involving a symlink and the --private option.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1