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CVE-2017-18018

CVE-2017-18018 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.099999904632568 HIGH

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.

EPSS 0.34% · 25.6th percentile

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
7.099999904632568
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score
0.34%
25.6th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:18.04:LTScoreutils8.26-3ubuntu4, 8.28-1ubuntu1, 0
Ubuntu:16.04:LTScoreutils*, 0, 8.23-4ubuntu2
Ubuntu:14.04:LTScoreutils8.21-1ubuntu4, 8.21-1ubuntu5, 8.21-1ubuntu5.1

Timeline

  • Jan 4, 2018 CVE Published
  • Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Aug 25, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Oct 28, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Dec 30, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Mar 3, 2022 EPSS Score
  • May 5, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Sep 10, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Nov 12, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Jan 14, 2023 EPSS Score

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