Security advisory

{
  "id": "95776a24fc8cf3496d5887e9777d48d0f61d3cd9eab603f6f935a39cef515d3a",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-5180",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-5180",
    "summary": "Firejail before 0.9.44.4 and 0.9.38.x LTS before 0.9.38.8 LTS does not consider the .Xauthority case during its attempt to prevent accessing user files with an euid of zero, which allows local users to conduct sandbox-escape attacks via vectors involving a symlink and the --private option.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-5180",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-5180",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-5180"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/netblue30/firejail",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "e0422ca2be6482f375400562b68e9d72d739964b"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "8fd8fe3035f6ee353430032d0079420d4bfeaf2f"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "193efefbd2f2e98d4baa3c4d1b6322bb1ea1fee1"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:firejail_project:firejail:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "0.9.44.4"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:firejail_project:firejail:*:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0.9.38"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "0.9.38.8"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "0.9.44.2",
            "0.9.44",
            "0.9.38.4",
            "0.9.44-rc1",
            "0.9.42",
            "0.9.38.2",
            "0.9.42-rc2",
            "0.9.38",
            "0.9.42-rc1",
            "disable-globalcfg",
            "0.9.40",
            "0.9.40-rc1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5180.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:41.876007683Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://firejail.wordpress.com/download-2/release-notes/",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-62"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-5180",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 435223,
  "published_at": "2017-02-09T18:59:00.127+00:00"
}