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HistoryNov 11, 2021 - 12:00 a.m.

Firejail vulnerability

2021-11-1100:00:00
ubuntu.com
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ubuntu 20.04 lts
firejail
overlayfs
race condition
administrative privileges
disable support

CVSS2

6.9

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS3

7.8

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

7.2

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

29.7%

Releases

  • Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Packages

  • firejail - Application sandbox

Details

Roman Fiedler discovered that a race condition existed in Firejail
when using OverlayFS to prevent writes to the underlying file system. A
local attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges. Note:
this update disables support for OverlayFS in Firejail.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Ubuntu20.04noarchfirejail< 0.9.62-3ubuntu0.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu20.04noarchfirejail-dbgsym< 0.9.62-3ubuntu0.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu20.04noarchfirejail-profiles< 0.9.62-3ubuntu0.1UNKNOWN

CVSS2

6.9

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS3

7.8

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

7.2

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

29.7%