fuse-overlayfs: fuse-overlayfs: Privilege Escalation Vulnerability via SUID/SGID Bit Preservation

A flaw was found in fuse-overlayfs, a component used for rootless containers. This vulnerability allows a low-privileged process to retain SUID Set User ID and SGID Set Group ID permissions on files after they are truncated or opened with the OTRUNC flag. This can enable a local attacker to...

CVE-2026-52791

fuse-overlayfs is an implementation of overlayfs in FUSE for rootless containers. Prior to 1.17, the release-1.x C branch preserves SUID and SGID mode bits in main.c during openOTRUNC and truncate handling on a copied-up file, allowing a low-privileged process to leave the upper-layer file with...