CVE-2026-96812 (GCVE-0-2026-96812)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-25 14:47
Modified
2026-09-25 16:07
CWE
  • CWE-668 - Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Summary
Improper Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere in the host file helper (gofer) in Google gVisor prior to commit 573a9e73cf844f on Linux platforms with CUSE enabled allows a local attacker with container image deployment privileges to achieve root code execution on the host system. By including a /dev/cuse character device node in a container image, opening the device passes through to the host, allowing the sandboxed attacker to register a host device and exploit CUSE unrestricted ioctl handling to overwrite root udev helper memory.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Google gVisor Version: 0
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