Firejail before 0.9.44.4 and 0.9.38.x LTS before 0.9.38.8 LTS does not consider the .Xauthority case during its attempt to prevent accessing user files with an euid of zero, which allows local users to conduct sandbox-escape attacks via vectors involving a symlink and the --private option.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-02-09T18:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T14:55:35.375Z

Reserved: 2017-01-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-5180

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-02-09T18:59:00.127

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223

Link: CVE-2017-5180

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