Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Fuse - CVE-2011-0542
Published: September 3, 2011 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU44758
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-0542
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 manipulate or delete data.
fusermount in fuse 2.8.5 and earlier does not perform a chdir to / before performing a mount or umount, which allows local users to unmount arbitrary directories via unspecified vectors.
Affected software
Fuse
How to mitigate CVE-2011-0542
Install update from vendor's website.