CVE-2016-2781

At a glance

Severity
MEDIUM 4.6
EPSS
EPSS 0.43 % · percentile 37 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
mitre
NVD status
Modified

Description

chroot in GNU coreutils, when used with --userspec, allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call, which pushes characters to the terminal's input buffer.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.6CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NCISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.6CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NNVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0LOW 2.1AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
affected n/a

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD