CVE-2018-15687

high

Description

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.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3816-1/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-10

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/10517/commits

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-10-26

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7

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

Severity: High