Race Condition Affecting systemd/systemd package, versions [,240)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SYSTEMDSYSTEMD-2365471
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Oct 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-15687  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade systemd/systemd to version 240 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition. A race condition in chown_one() of systemd allows an attacker to cause systemd to set arbitrary permissions on arbitrary files. Affected releases are systemd versions up to and including 239.

References

CVSS Scores

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