CVE-2026-96812

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.

  • Published Sep 25, 2026
  • CVSS 8.8 high
  • 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS)
  • A fix is available

Affected software

CVE-2026-96812 at the National Vulnerability Database