CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.1. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2017-18018
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.1
EPSS
0.35%
Original NVD Description
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.
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