CVE-2017-18018

4.7MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Gnu
Status
Coreutils
Vendor
CVE Published:
4 January 2018

Summary

In GNU Coreutils through 8.29, chown-core.c in chown and chgrp does not prevent replacement of a plain file with a symlink during use of the POSIX "-R -L" options, which allows local users to modify the ownership of arbitrary files by leveraging a race condition.

References

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-12/msg00...
x_refsource_MISC

CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.7
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
High
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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