3.6
CVSSv2

CVE-2015-3202

Published: 02/07/2015 Updated: 01/07/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.6 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 365
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

fusermount in FUSE prior to 2.9.3-15 does not properly clear the environment before invoking (1) mount or (2) umount as root, which allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a crafted LIBMOUNT_MTAB environment variable that is used by mount's debugging feature.

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debian debian linux 8.0

fuse project fuse

Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #786439 fuse: CVE-2015-3202 Package: src:fuse; Maintainer for src:fuse is Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 17:39:07 UTC Severity: grave Tags: security, upstream Found in versions fuse/290-1, fuse/284-1 ...
NTFS-3G could be made to overwrite files as the administrator ...
NTFS-3G could be made to overwrite files as the administrator ...
FUSE could be made to overwrite files as the administrator ...
Tavis Ormandy discovered that NTFS-3G, a read-write NTFS driver for FUSE, does not scrub the environment before executing mount or umount with elevated privileges A local user can take advantage of this flaw to overwrite arbitrary files and gain elevated privileges by accessing debugging features via the environment that would not normally be safe ...
Tavis Ormandy discovered that FUSE, a Filesystem in USErspace, does not scrub the environment before executing mount or umount with elevated privileges A local user can take advantage of this flaw to overwrite arbitrary files and gain elevated privileges by accessing debugging features via the environment that would not normally be safe for unpriv ...
It was discovered that fusermount failed to properly sanitize its environment before executing mount and umount commands A local user could possibly use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system ...

Exploits

Source: gistgithubcom/taviso/ecb70eb12d461dd85cba Tweet: twittercom/taviso/status/601370527437967360 Recommend Reading: seclistsorg/oss-sec/2015/q2/520 YouTube: wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=V0i3uJJPJ88 # Making a demo exploit for CVE-2015-3202 on Ubuntu fit in a tweet 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345 ...
Fuse (fusermount) suffers from a local privilege escalation vulnerability This is a proof of concept for Ubuntu ...