Access Restriction Bypass Affecting netblue30/firejail package, versions [,0.9.44.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.94% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NETBLUE30FIREJAIL-2369389
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Mar 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-5206  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade netblue30/firejail to version 0.9.44.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Firejail before 0.9.44.4, when running on a Linux kernel before 4.8, allows context-dependent attackers to bypass a seccomp-based sandbox protection mechanism via the --allow-debuggers argument.

CVSS Base Scores

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