VDB
CVE-2017-18018
CVE-2017-18018
PUBLISHED
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 0.06% · 17.7th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
0.06%
17.7th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:18.04:LTS | coreutils | 8.26-3ubuntu4, 8.28-1ubuntu1, 0 |
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | coreutils | *, 0, 8.23-4ubuntu2 |
| Ubuntu:14.04:LTS | coreutils | 8.21-1ubuntu4, 8.21-1ubuntu5, 8.21-1ubuntu5.1 |
Exploit Intelligence
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-12/msg00045.html (nist-nvd)
- dhi-victoriametrics-vmstorage.vex.json (github-poc)
- dhi-victoriametrics-vmstorage.vex.json (github-poc)
- dhi-victoriametrics-vmstorage.vex.json (github-poc)
- dhi-victoriametrics-vmstorage.vex.json (github-poc)
- dhi-victoriametrics-vmstorage.vex.json (github-poc)
- dhi-istioctl.vex.json (github-poc)
- dhi-istioctl.vex.json (github-poc)
- dhi-istioctl.vex.json (github-poc)
- dhi-istioctl.vex.json (github-poc)
…and 11 more exploits
Timeline
- Jan 4, 2018 CVE Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
- Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
- Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 2, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 5, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jan 8, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-18018 third-party-advisory
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-12/msg00045.html third-party-advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/01/04/3 third-party-advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-12/msg00072.html third-party-advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-12/msg00073.html third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-18018 third-party-advisory