CVE-2017-18018

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.

CVSS Version 3.0

nvd

CVE ID: CVE-2017-18018
Base Score: 4.7
Base Severity: MEDIUM
Vector String:CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS Version 2.0

nvd

CVE ID: CVE-2017-18018
Base Score: 1.9
Base Severity: LOW
Vector String:AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Refrence: NVD