Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-0542

Title: Fuse

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2011-0542.

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Sep 02, 2011

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 3.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.32%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-0542: fusermount in fuse 2.8.5 and earlier does not perform a chdir to / before performing a mount or umount, which allows local users to unmount arbitrary directories via unspecified vectors.

Impacted Vendors

fuse 1

miklos_szeredi 1

redhat 1

Reference Links

http://fuse.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=fuse/fuse%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1e7607ff89c65b005f69e27aeb1649d624099873 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/02/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/03/5 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/08/4 http://fuse.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=fuse/fuse%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1e7607ff89c65b005f69e27aeb1649d624099873 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/02/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/03/5 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/08/4

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

3.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-0542 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 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 02, 2011 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:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.