CVE-2018-15687

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-15687
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-15687.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-15687
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-10-26T14:29:00.757Z
Modified
2026-05-18T05:49:19.758098376Z
Severity
  • 7.0 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "16.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "18.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "18.10"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/systemd/systemd

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/systemd/systemd
Events
Introduced
c1719d8bc924ed59448616bd748671c5c7a66d93
Fixed
1742aae2aa8cd33897250d6fcfbe10928e43eb2f
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "235"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "240"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_FIELD",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:systemd_project:systemd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

Other
v235
v236
v237
v238
v239

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-15687.json"

Git / github.com/systemd/systemd-stable

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable
Events
Introduced
c1719d8bc924ed59448616bd748671c5c7a66d93
Fixed
1742aae2aa8cd33897250d6fcfbe10928e43eb2f
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "235"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "240"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_FIELD",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:systemd_project:systemd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

Other
v235
v236
v237
v238
v239

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-15687.json"