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CVE-2011-4099

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
08/02/2014
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

The capsh program in libcap before 2.22 does not change the current working directory when the --chroot option is specified, which allows local users to bypass the chroot restrictions via unspecified vectors.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.60 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
4.60
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:libcap:libcap:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.21 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:libcap:libcap:2.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libcap:libcap:2.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libcap:libcap:2.02:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libcap:libcap:2.03:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libcap:libcap:2.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libcap:libcap:2.05:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libcap:libcap:2.06:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libcap:libcap:2.07:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libcap:libcap:2.08:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libcap:libcap:2.09:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libcap:libcap:2.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libcap:libcap:2.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libcap:libcap:2.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libcap:libcap:2.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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