Privilege Escalation via OpenRC opentmpfiles Vulnerability

CVE-2017-18188 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

OpenRC opentmpfiles through 0.1.3, when the fs.protected_hardlinks sysctl is turned off, allows local users to obtain ownership of arbitrary files by creating a hard link inside a directory on which "chown -R" will be run.

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