CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-15687
7.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-10-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
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.
Affected configurations
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.10
• systemd project systemd (>= 235 < 240)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105748 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/10517/commits Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-10 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3816-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45715/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105748 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/10517/commits Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-10 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3816-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45715/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry