6.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2017-5206

Published: 23/03/2017 Updated: 03/10/2019
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 9 | Impact Score: 6 | Exploitability Score: 2.2
VMScore: 605
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Firejail prior to 0.9.44.4, when running on a Linux kernel prior to 4.8, allows context-dependent malicious users to bypass a seccomp-based sandbox protection mechanism via the --allow-debuggers argument.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #850528 firejail: CVE-2017-5207: root shell via --bandwidth and --shell Package: src:firejail; Maintainer for src:firejail is Reiner Herrmann <reiner@reiner-hde>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 13:36:01 UTC Severity: grave Tags: fixed-upstream, p ...
Debian Bug report logs - #850558 firejail: CVE-2017-5206 Package: src:firejail; Maintainer for src:firejail is Reiner Herrmann <reiner@reiner-hde>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 18:18:02 UTC Severity: grave Tags: fixed-upstream, patch, security, upstream Found in versi ...
A vulnerability has been discovered when using ptrace with --allow-debuggers, which allows a sandboxed program to escape the seccomp profile by rewriting permitted system calls into unpermitted ones pre Linux 48 ...