Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-3531

Title: fusermount (FUSE) setuid root allows /etc/mtab corruption

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-3531.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Nov 23, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 2.1 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.37%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-3531: fusermount in FUSE before 2.4.1, if installed setuid root, allows local users to corrupt /etc/mtab and possibly modify mount options by performing a mount over a directory whose name contains certain special characters.

Impacted Vendors

fuse 1

miklos_szeredi 1

redhat 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/17691 http://secunia.com/advisories/17695 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-17.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:216 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15529 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2529 http://secunia.com/advisories/17691 http://secunia.com/advisories/17695 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-17.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:216 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15529 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2529

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

2.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-3531 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 23, 2005 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.