title: ntfs-3g: Modprobe influence vulnerability via environment variables
description: 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.
problem types: privilege escalation
affected:
{
product: ntfs-3g
vendor: ntfs-3g
versions:
status: affected, version: n/a
}