CVE-2017-18018
MEDIUM4.7EPSS 0.06%Published: 1/4/2018Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/coreutilsfrom 0, < 8.30-r0
- Debian/coreutilsfrom 0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM4.7 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |