Jann Horn of Google Project Zero discovered that NTFS-3G, a read-write NTFS driver for FUSE, does not scrub the environment before executing modprobe with elevated privileges. A local user can take advantage of this flaw for local root privilege escalation.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-815-1 ntfs-3g security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3780-1 ntfs-3g security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3182-1 NTFS-3G vulnerability
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Solution

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Workaround

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History

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: debian

Published:

Updated: 2025-12-04T16:01:26.539Z

Reserved: 2016-11-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-0358

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-05T13:03:56.587Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-04-13T15:29:00.397

Modified: 2025-12-04T16:15:48.560

Link: CVE-2017-0358

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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