{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2017-0358","details":"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.","modified":"2026-04-22T11:52:02.263076Z","published":"2017-02-01T14:00:00Z","related":["USN-3182-1"],"upstream":["CVE-2017-0358"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-0358"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3182-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-0358"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"ntfs-3g","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/ntfs-3g@1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.1"}]}],"versions":["1:2014.2.15AR.3-3","1:2015.3.14AR.1-1","1:2015.3.14AR.1-1build1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_name":"ntfs-3g","binary_version":"1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-0358.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}