4.7 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
4.6 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
1.9 Low
CVSS2
Access Vector
Access Complexity
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.2%
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.
CPE | Name | Operator | Version |
---|---|---|---|
gnu:coreutils | gnu coreutils | le | 8.29 |
4.7 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
4.6 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
1.9 Low
CVSS2
Access Vector
Access Complexity
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.2%