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High · 8.8 CVE-2026-96812 EUVD-2026-87111GHSA-3chr-j932-q9pc

Host Root Sandbox Escape in gVisor via Character Device Passthrough and CUSE

Published Sep 25, 2026 · Updated Sep 25, 2026 · Assigned by Google

Description

Improper Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere in the host file helper (gofer) in Google gVisor prior to commit 573a9e73cf844f on Linux platforms with CUSE enabled allows a local attacker with container image deployment privileges to achieve root code execution on the host system. By including a /dev/cuse character device node in a container image, opening the device passes through to the host, allowing the sandboxed attacker to register a host device and exploit CUSE unrestricted ioctl handling to overwrite root udev helper memory.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Google gVisor — —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 golang-gvisor-gvisor 0.0~20261026.0-1 —
Debian 13 golang-gvisor-gvisor No fix yet —
Debian 12 golang-gvisor-gvisor No fix yet —

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