CVE-2017-18078 vulnerability in FreeDesktop and Other Products
Published on January 29, 2018
systemd-tmpfiles in systemd before 237 attempts to support ownership/permission changes on hardlinked files even if the fs.protected_hardlinks sysctl is turned off, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions via vectors involving a hard link to a file for which the user lacks write access, as demonstrated by changing the ownership of the /etc/passwd file.
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Exploit Probability
EPSS
0.08%
Percentile
24.51%
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