CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-1063

4.4 MEDIUM Published 2018-03-02 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-03-02
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.3 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-59

Description

Context relabeling of filesystems is vulnerable to symbolic link attack, allowing a local, unprivileged malicious entity to change the SELinux context of an arbitrary file to a context with few restrictions. This only happens when the relabeling process is done, usually when taking SELinux state from disabled to enable (permissive or enforcing). The issue was found in policycoreutils 2.5-11.

Affected configurations

• redhat enterprise linux 7.0 • selinux project selinux

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References