VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-16638

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability1.35%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-11-06
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

The Gentoo net-misc/vde package before version 2.3.2-r4 may allow members of the "qemu" group to gain root privileges by creating a hard link in a directory on which "chown" is called recursively by the OpenRC service script.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Primary references