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SUSE-SU-2026:23469-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2026-09-03 20:12 - Updated: 2026-09-16 20:16

Summary

Security update for fuse-overlayfs

Severity

Moderate

Notes

Title of the patch: Security update for fuse-overlayfs

Description of the patch: This update for fuse-overlayfs fixes the following issue: - CVE-2026-52791: privilege escalation due to SUID/SGID bit preservation after truncate operation (bsc#1273100).

Patchnames: SUSE-SL-Micro-6.2-1601

CVE-2026-52791

4.7 (Medium)


                
                  CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected products

Recommended 4 products

Product	Version	Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Micro 6.2:fuse-overlayfs-1.15-160000.3.1.aarch64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Micro 6.2:fuse-overlayfs-1.15-160000.3.1.ppc64le	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Micro 6.2:fuse-overlayfs-1.15-160000.3.1.s390x	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Micro 6.2:fuse-overlayfs-1.15-160000.3.1.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix

Threats

Impact moderate

References

8 references

URL	Category
https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/	external
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/s…	self
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/…	self
https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-upd…	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1273100	self
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-52791/	self
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-52791	external
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1273100	external

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CVE-2026-52791 (GCVE-0-2026-52791)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-29 16:14 – Updated: 2026-07-29 17:56

Title

fuse-overlayfs release-1.x preserves SUID/SGID bits after truncate/open(O_TRUNC)

Summary

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.

Severity

2 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-07-29 17:56 UTC

CWE

CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/containers/fuse-overlayfs/secu…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/containers/fuse-overlayfs/comm…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/containers/fuse-overlayfs/rele…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
containers	fuse-overlayfs	Affected: < 1.17

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