CVE-2016-6299: Fedoraproject Fedora

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The scm plug-in in mock might allow attackers to bypass the intended chroot protection mechanism and gain root privileges via a crafted spec file.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 23 only; version 24 only; version 25 only
• Mock Project Scm Plugin: affected versions not specified

Published 2017-04-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.