CVE-2007-5159 — The ntfs-3g package before 1.913-2.fc7 in Fedora 7, and an ntfs-3g package in Ubuntu 7.10/Gutsy, assign incorrect permissions (setuid root) to mount.ntfs-3g, which allows local users with fuse group membership to read from and write to arbitrary block devices, possibly involving a file descriptor leak

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The ntfs-3g package before 1.913-2.fc7 in Fedora 7, and an ntfs-3g package in Ubuntu 7.10/Gutsy, assign incorrect permissions (setuid root) to mount.ntfs-3g, which allows local users with fuse group membership to read from and write to arbitrary block devices, possibly involving a file descriptor leak

Published Oct 1, 2007

4.6

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.35%

Description

The ntfs-3g package before 1.913-2.fc7 in Fedora 7, and an ntfs-3g package in Ubuntu 7.10/Gutsy, assign incorrect permissions (setuid root) to mount.ntfs-3g, which allows local users with fuse group membership to read from and write to arbitrary block devices, possibly involving a file descriptor leak.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.35% 0.00354

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00354

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.35% (0.00354)	26.68th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.35% (0.00354)	27.02th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.04% (0.00044)	10.69th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.95% (0.00950)	32.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.95% (0.00950)	30.63th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.95% (0.00950)	28.61th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.95% (0.00950)	13.46th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (4)

http://secunia.com/advisories/26938
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=298651
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2007-September/msg00163.html
mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00368.html
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/26938		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=298651		x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2007-September/msg00163.html		mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00368.html		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Oct 1, 2007

Updated Sep 16, 2024

Reserved Sep 30, 2007

Link CVE-2007-5159

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2007-5159

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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