CVE-2018-15687 (GCVE-0-2018-15687)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-10-26 14:00 – Updated: 2025-06-09 15:48
VLAI?
Summary
A race condition in chown_one() of systemd allows an attacker to cause systemd to set arbitrary permissions on arbitrary files. Affected releases are systemd versions up to and including 239.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • There is a race condition between a stat(2) call and the fchmodat(2) call.
Assigner
References
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-10 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/10517/commits x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105748 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3816-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45715/ exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
systemd systemd Affected: unspecified , ≤ 239 (custom)
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Credits
Jann Horn
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