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CVE-2017-18018

PoC
CVSS 3.1
7.1 high
EPSS
<1%p28
Published
()
Modified
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.

Vendors
gnu
Products
coreutils
Weakness
CWE-362
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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