CVE-2015-1340

LXD before version 0.19-0ubuntu5 doUidshiftIntoContainer() has an unsafe Chmod() call that races against the stat in the Filepath.Walk() function. A symbolic link created in that window could cause any file on the system to have any mode of the attacker's choice.

Score

CVSS 3.0 8.1 High

Status

Modified - security@ubuntu.com

Published

2019-04-22

Last modified

2024-09-17

Weaknesses

CWE-362

Affected products

• Lxd (Linuxcontainers)
• Lxd (Ubuntu)

References

• https://github.com/lxc/lxd/commit/19c6961cc1012c8a529f20807328a9357f5034f4