CVE-2016-10122
Firejail does not properly clean environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges.
02 Description
Firejail does not properly clean environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.39% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 33.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-04-13 14:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 03:14Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2017-01-06
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 90db25912034537eb1184d5250f053cdf5b446e300be6fa40de1ee5462b6d61c
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20170105 Re: Firejail local root exploithttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/05/4
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20170106 Re: Firejail local root exploithttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/06/2
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- firejail Fixed in 0.9.44.10-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- firejail Fixed in 0.9.44.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- firejail Fixed in 0.9.44.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- firejail No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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