CVE-2017-18188 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2017-18188

OpenRC opentmpfiles through 0.1.3, when the fs.protected_hardlinks sysctl is turned...

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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CVE-2017-18925
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Medium 5.5

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

opentmpfiles
Vulnerable Versions:
0

Timeline

Official Publish: February 14th, 2018
Last Modified: September 16th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.