PT-2019-6768 · Canonical · Ecryptfs-Utils

Vincent Danen · Published 2019-12-20 · Updated 2020-01-03 · CVE-2012-3409

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ecryptfs-utils (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to the suid helper in ecryptfs-utils, which does not properly restrict mounting filesystems with nosuid and nodev options. This oversight creates a possible privilege escalation scenario.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-3409

Affected Products

Ecryptfs-Utils

References · 14

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-3409 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-3409 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3409 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-3409 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3409 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-3409 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3409 · Security Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-3409 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/12/1 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-3409 · Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/8799 · Telegram Post
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/13/5 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/11/23 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/11 · Note