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CVE-2018-15687

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Date: October 26, 2018

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.0

Related Resources (9)

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/3816-1/

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15687

Url: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/10517/commits

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-10

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-15687

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105748

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-15687

Url: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45715/

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2018-15687

Severity Score

7.0

Weakness Type (CWE)

Race Conditions

CWE-362

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version v240

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.0
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.9
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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