CVE-2018-15687

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.

CVSS v3.1

7.0 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v3.0

7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

6.9 MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

1.06% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 62th percentile

Published

2018-10-26

Updated

2025-06-09

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45715

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2018-15686
• CVE-2018-15691
• CVE-2018-15685
• CVE-2018-15703
• CVE-2018-15684
• CVE-2018-15704