CVE-2026-52791

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

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
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

Configurations

No configuration.

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-07-29 17:16

Updated : 2026-09-10 20:04

NVD link : CVE-2026-52791

Mitre link : CVE-2026-52791

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-52791

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-266

Incorrect Privilege Assignment

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