CVE-2026-96812 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: Google
Reserved: 23.09.2026 Published: 25.09.2026 Updated: 25.09.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
CVSS Score: 8.8

Product Status

Vendor Google
Product gVisor
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 573a9e73cf844f (excl.)

Credits

  • Anthropic (using Claude) finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-668 Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere CWE
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-480 Escaping Virtualization
  • CAPEC-233 Privilege Escalation