{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2017-12-20T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "coreutils: race condition vulnerability in chown and chgrp",
    "id" : "1532284",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532284"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "4.2",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L",
    "status" : "draft"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-362",
  "details" : [ "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." ],
  "statement" : "For this vulnerability the fix was an update to the documentation. \nFor more details please visit:\nhttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/01/04/3\nhttp://michael.orlitzky.com/cves/cve-2017-18018.xhtml\nRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8 ships already updated version of the coreutils package (version 8.30).",
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "coreutils",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "coreutils",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "coreutils",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "coreutils",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "coreutils",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-18018\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18018" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2017-18018",
  "csaw" : false
}