Alpine: multiple coreutils packages: security update to 8.30-r0

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423760

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: Medium

ID: 423760

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Published: 4/4/2025

Updated: 5/30/2025

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/4/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-18018