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CVE-2017-16638

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 1.35%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-11-06 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.

CVE
CVE-2017-16638
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
1.35%

Original NVD Description

The Gentoo net-misc/vde package before version 2.3.2-r4 may allow members of the "qemu" group to gain root privileges by creating a hard link in a directory on which "chown" is called recursively by the OpenRC service script.