CVE-2005-3531: Miklos Szeredi Fuse

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

fusermount in FUSE before 2.4.1, if installed setuid root, allows local users to corrupt /etc/mtab and possibly modify mount options by performing a mount over a directory whose name contains certain special characters.

Affected products

• Miklos Szeredi Fuse: version 2.2 only; version 2.2.1 only; version 2.3.0 only; version 2.3_rc1 only; version 2.4.0 only

Published 2005-11-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.