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.
| Version | Score | Severity | Vector String |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.1 | High | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| Product | Vendor | Version |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | n/a | 17.3.1z |