Description
A Privilege Context Switching issue was discovered in join.c in Firejail 0.9.68. By crafting a bogus Firejail container that is accepted by the Firejail setuid-root program as a join target, a local attacker can enter an environment in which the Linux user namespace is still the initial user namespace, the NO_NEW_PRIVS prctl is not activated, and the entered mount namespace is under the attacker's control. In this way, the filesystem layout can be adjusted to gain root privileges through execution of available setuid-root binaries such as su or sudo.
References (8)
Core 8
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5167
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00023.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SIBEBE3KFINMGJATBQQS7D2VQQ62ZVMF/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KUZZ5M6LIBYRKTKGROXC47TDC3FRTGJF/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6RZOTZ36RUSL6DOVHITY25ZYKWTG5HN3/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-19
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
https://firejail.wordpress.com/download-2/release-notes/
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/06/08/10
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0007
EPSS Percentile
21.5%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-269
Status
published
Products (6)
debian/debian_linux
9.0
debian/debian_linux
10.0
fedoraproject/fedora
35
fedoraproject/fedora
36
fedoraproject/fedora
37
firejail_project/firejail
0.9.68
Published
Jun 09, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026