CVE-2017-18018

CVSS 7.1 HIGHEPSS 0.3%CWE-362

Vexday Risk Score

21Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 7.1EPSS 0.3%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

04 Jan 2018Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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.

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected products

n/a · n/a

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References

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-12/msg00045.html