VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2007-5159
CVSS score4.6 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.35%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2007-10-01
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
The ntfs-3g package before 1.913-2.fc7 in Fedora 7, and an ntfs-3g package in Ubuntu 7.10/Gutsy, assign incorrect permissions (setuid root) to mount.ntfs-3g, which allows local users with fuse group membership to read from and write to arbitrary block devices, possibly involving a file descriptor leak.