Vulnerabilities > GNU > Coreutils > 8.28

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2018-01-04 CVE-2017-18018 Race Condition vulnerability in GNU Coreutils
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.
local
high complexity
gnu CWE-362
4.7