CVE-2026-52791
Prior to 1.17, the release-1.x C branch preserves SUID and SGID mode bits in main.c during open(O_TRUNC) and truncate handling on a copied-up file, allowing a low-privileged process to leave the upper-layer file with mode 4777.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.10%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
fuse-overlayfs is an implementation of overlayfs in FUSE for rootless containers. Prior to 1.17, the release-1.x C branch preserves SUID and SGID mode bits in main.c during open(O_TRUNC) and truncate handling on a copied-up file, allowing a low-privileged process to leave the upper-layer file with mode 4777. This issue is fixed in version 1.17.
- CVSS 4.0
- 2.0 LOWCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
- EPSS
- 0.10% probability · 1th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-266
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/containers/fuse-overlayfs/commit/97e0d968a782fc259ebde112db1e9b9ff1ad724f
- https://github.com/containers/fuse-overlayfs/releases/tag/v1.17
- https://github.com/containers/fuse-overlayfs/security/advisories/GHSA-2cc4-p72c-v85h
- https://github.com/containers/fuse-overlayfs/security/advisories/GHSA-2cc4-p72c-v85h
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.