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.

Risk Information

Base Score

4.7

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.056

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition) Vulnerability (CVE-2017-18018)	NCM

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234