Exposure of File Descriptor to Unintended Control Sphere
CWE-403
A process does not close sensitive file descriptors before invoking a child process, which allows the child to perform unauthorized I/O operations using those descriptors.
We track 7 vulnerabilities of this type. 100% are rated high or critical, and the average CVSS score is 8.7.
Latest Exposure of File Descriptor to Unintended Control Sphere vulnerabilities
- 8.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Exposure of File Descriptor to Unintended Control Sphere
A flaw in the PCP linux_sockets module exposes an unsecured internal connection. An attacker with initial code execution can exploit this to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary commands as root.
- 7.5 High severity
Firefox: Protection Mechanism Failure
Sandbox escape in the Security: Process Sandboxing component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 152, Firefox ESR 140.12, Thunderbird 152, and Thunderbird 140.12.
- 9.8 Critical severity
Pachno: Exposure of File Descriptor to Unintended Control Sphere
Pachno 1.0.6 contains an XML external entity injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files by exploiting unsafe XML parsing in the TextParser helper. Attackers can inject malicious XML entities through wiki table syntax
- 9.8 Critical severity
lares: Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere
Ksenia Security lares (legacy model) Home Automation version 1.6 contains a critical security flaw that exposes the alarm system PIN in the 'basisInfo' XML file after authentication. Attackers can retrieve the PIN from the server response to bypass security me
- 8.8 High severity
CMSimple: Exposure of File Descriptor to Unintended Control Sphere
CMSimple 5.15 contains a remote command execution vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers to modify file extensions and upload malicious PHP files. Attackers can append ',php' to Extensions_userfiles and upload a shell script to the media directory t
- 7.4 High severity
Firefox: Exposure of File Descriptor to Unintended Control Sphere
Leaking of file descriptors from the fork server to web content processes could allow for privilege escalation attacks. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 137 and Thunderbird 137.
- 8.6 High severity
runc: Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere
runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the OCI specification. In runc 1.1.11 and earlier, due to an internal file descriptor leak, an attacker could cause a newly-spawned container process (from runc exec) to have a workin