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.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.1
- CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)
- CVSS 3.0 Base Score: 4.7
- CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade coreutils | Aug 22, 2024 | Jan 4, 2018 |
| Debian | — | No solution exists | May 15, 2025 | Jan 4, 2018 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp2 | — | Upgrade coreutils | Dec 4, 2019 | Jan 4, 2018 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp3 | — | Upgrade coreutils | Dec 18, 2019 | Jan 4, 2018 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp5 | — | Upgrade coreutils | Nov 19, 2019 | Jan 4, 2018 |
| Redhat_linux | — | No solution exists | Jul 9, 2025 | Jan 4, 2018 |
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