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CVE-2017-18018
published 2018-01-04

CVE-2017-18018: 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"…

high7.1CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRLUINSUCHIHAN
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.

Affected

2 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debiancoreutils
gnucoreutils<= 8.29

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.1HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
osv7.1HIGH