{"vulnerability": "CVE-2017-18018", "sightings": [{"uuid": "b9d51d93-ad08-4608-92ab-c41d20ba4923", "vulnerability_lookup_origin": "1a89b78e-f703-45f3-bb86-59eb712668bd", "author": "9f56dd64-161d-43a6-b9c3-555944290a09", "vulnerability": "CVE-2017-18018", "type": "seen", "source": "https://t.me/DarkWebInformer_CVEAlerts/17714", "content": "\ud83d\udd17 DarkWebInformer.com - Cyber Threat Intelligence\n\ud83d\udccc CVE ID: CVE-2017-18018\n\ud83d\udd25 CVSS Score: N/A\n\ud83d\udd39 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.\n\ud83d\udccf Published: 2018-01-04T04:00:00.000Z\n\ud83d\udccf Modified: 2025-06-09T15:57:37.581Z\n\ud83d\udd17 References:\n1. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-12/msg00045.html", "creation_timestamp": "2025-06-09T16:56:20.000000Z"}]}