Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in libcap - CVE-2011-4099
Published: February 8, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42053
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-4099
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
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.
Affected software
libcap
How to mitigate CVE-2011-4099
Install update from vendor's website.