CVE-2018-15687 (GCVE-0-2018-15687)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-10-26 14:00
Modified
2025-06-09 15:48
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CWE
- There is a race condition between a stat(2) call and the fchmodat(2) call.
Summary
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.
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