Alpine: multiple ntfs-3g packages: security update to 2016.2.22-r0 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400932

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- 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. (CVE-2017-0358)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400932

Version: Revision 1.26

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-0358

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/2/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/3/2017

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Metasploit (Debian/Ubuntu ntfs-3g Local Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-0358

BID: 95987

Detections

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