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lxc-user-nic in lxc through 5.0.1 is installed setuid root, and may allow local users to infer whether any file exists, even within a protected directory tree, because "Failed to open" often indicates that a file does not exist, whereas "does not refer to a network namespace path" often indicates that a file exists

Published Jan 1, 2023

Description

lxc-user-nic in lxc through 5.0.1 is installed setuid root, and may allow local users to infer whether any file exists, even within a protected directory tree, because "Failed to open" often indicates that a file does not exist, whereas "does not refer to a network namespace path" often indicates that a file exists. NOTE: this is different from CVE-2018-6556 because the CVE-2018-6556 fix design was based on the premise that "we will report back to the user that the open() failed but the user has no way of knowing why it failed"; however, in many realistic cases, there are no plausible reasons for failing except that the file does not exist.

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Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jan 1, 2023
Updated Apr 10, 2025
Reserved Dec 24, 2022

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated Apr 10, 2025

NVD

Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026

Red Hat

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ENISA EUVD

Assigner mitre
Published Jan 1, 2023
Updated Apr 10, 2025

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