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CVE-2011-1833
Race condition in the ecryptfs_mount function in fs/ecryptfs/main.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.1 allows local…
Low3.3EPSS 0.36%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- canonical
Description
Race condition in the ecryptfs_mount function in fs/ecryptfs/main.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.1 allows local users to bypass intended file permissions via a mount.ecryptfs_private mount with a mismatched uid.
Timeline
ID reserved
By canonical
- 18 months later
· 18 months later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low3.3 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.36% · top 70% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/764355487ea220fdc2faf128d577d7f679b91f97 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2011:0898 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=764355487ea220fdc2faf128d577d7f679b91f97 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731172 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-1188-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2011-1831 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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