CVE-2017-18188

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-18188

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-18188.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-18188

Downstream

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-18188

Published

2018-02-14T20:29:00.220Z

Modified

2026-03-14T09:22:39.258251Z

Severity

5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

OpenRC opentmpfiles through 0.1.3, when the fs.protected_hardlinks sysctl is turned off, allows local users to obtain ownership of arbitrary files by creating a hard link inside a directory on which "chown -R" will be run.

References

https://github.com/OpenRC/opentmpfiles/issues/3

Affected packages

Git / github.com/openrc/opentmpfiles

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/openrc/opentmpfiles

Events

Introduced

Last affected

0ca4be059e2a19166b399871f8904baef39c34d8

Database specific

{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.1.3"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*

0.1

0.1.1

0.1.2

0.1.3

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-18188.json"