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Alpine: coreutils: security update to 8.28-r0

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 403905

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2017-18018)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-18018

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 403905

Version: Revision 1.25

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-18018

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/4/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-18018