SFP Secondary Cluster: Failed Chroot Jail

A category in the Common Weakness Enumeration published by The MITRE Corporation.


Summary

Categories in the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) group entries based on some common characteristic or attribute.

This category identifies Software Fault Patterns (SFPs) within the Failed Chroot Jail cluster (SFP17).

Weaknesses

Creation of chroot Jail Without Changing Working Directory

The product uses the chroot() system call to create a jail, but does not change the working directory afterward. This does not prevent access to files outside of the j...

Concepts

Software Fault Pattern (SFP) Clusters

CWE identifiers in this view are associated with clusters of Software Fault Patterns (SFPs).


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