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Vulnerability CVE-2017-18018
Published: 2018-01-03 Modified: 2018-01-04
Description: |
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. |
See advisories in our WLB2 database: | Topic | Author | Date |
Med. |
| Michael Orlitzky | 05.01.2018 |
Type:
CWE-362
CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
CVSS Base Score |
Impact Subscore |
Exploitability Subscore |
1.9/10 |
2.9/10 |
3.4/10 |
Exploit range |
Attack complexity |
Authentication |
Local |
Medium |
No required |
Confidentiality impact |
Integrity impact |
Availability impact |
None |
Partial |
None |
References: |
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-12/msg00045.html
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