A logic error was found in the libmount library of util-linux in the function that allows an unprivileged user to unmount a FUSE filesystem. This flaw allows a local user on a vulnerable system to unmount other users' filesystems that are either world-writable themselves (like /tmp) or mounted in a world-writable directory. An attacker may use this flaw to cause a denial of service to applications that use the affected filesystems.
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"modified": "2024-11-21T06:23:20.377Z",
"imported": "2025-10-27T15:41:00.912Z",
"id": "CVE-2021-3996",
"url": "https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?cveId=CVE-2021-3996",
"published": "2022-08-23T20:15:08.560Z",
"html_url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3996"
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