CVE-2007-5159

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

Publication date:

01/10/2007

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

The ntfs-3g package before 1.913-2.fc7 in Fedora 7, and an ntfs-3g package in Ubuntu 7.10/Gutsy, assign incorrect permissions (setuid root) to mount.ntfs-3g, which allows local users with fuse group membership to read from and write to arbitrary block devices, possibly involving a file descriptor leak.

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:o:redhat:fedora:7:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:ntfs-3g:ntfs-3g::::::::		1.913-1.fc7 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:ubuntu:ubuntu_linux:7.10:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:ntfs-3g:ntfs-3g::::::::

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CVE-2007-5159

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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