ALPINE-CVE-2017-18018

Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-18018
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18018.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18018
Upstream
Published
2018-01-04T04:29:00.190Z
Modified
2026-06-15T18:18:06.789624535Z
Severity
  • 4.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.10
coreutils

Package

Name
coreutils
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/coreutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.30-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18018.json"
Alpine:v3.11
coreutils

Package

Name
coreutils
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/coreutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.30-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18018.json"
Alpine:v3.12
coreutils

Package

Name
coreutils
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/coreutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.30-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18018.json"
Alpine:v3.13
coreutils

Package

Name
coreutils
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/coreutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.30-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18018.json"
Alpine:v3.14
coreutils

Package

Name
coreutils
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/coreutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.30-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18018.json"
Alpine:v3.15
coreutils

Package

Name
coreutils
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/coreutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.30-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18018.json"
Alpine:v3.16
coreutils

Package

Name
coreutils
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/coreutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.30-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18018.json"
Alpine:v3.17
coreutils

Package

Name
coreutils
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/coreutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.30-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18018.json"
Alpine:v3.18
coreutils

Package

Name
coreutils
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/coreutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.30-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18018.json"
Alpine:v3.19
coreutils

Package

Name
coreutils
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/coreutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.30-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18018.json"
Alpine:v3.20
coreutils

Package

Name
coreutils
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/coreutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.30-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18018.json"
Alpine:v3.21
coreutils

Package

Name
coreutils
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/coreutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.30-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18018.json"
Alpine:v3.22
coreutils

Package

Name
coreutils
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/coreutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.30-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18018.json"
Alpine:v3.23
coreutils

Package

Name
coreutils
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/coreutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.30-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18018.json"
Alpine:v3.24
coreutils

Package

Name
coreutils
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/coreutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.30-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18018.json"
Alpine:v3.7
coreutils

Package

Name
coreutils
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/coreutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.28-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18018.json"
Alpine:v3.8
coreutils

Package

Name
coreutils
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/coreutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.29-r2

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18018.json"
Alpine:v3.9
coreutils

Package

Name
coreutils
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/coreutils?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.30-r0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-18018.json"