CVE-2017-18188

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-02-14

Last modified

2024-09-16

Weaknesses

CWE-59

Affected products

• Opentmpfiles (Openr)

References

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