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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.4% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NETBLUE30FIREJAIL-2369393
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Mar 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-5207  (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 a bandwidth command, allows local users to gain root privileges via the --shell argument.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1