UBUNTU-CVE-2018-15687

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-15687

    Published: 26 Oct 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-15687
    Aliases:
    USN-3816-1

    Summary:

    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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-15687, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3816-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-15687

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: systemd

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -229-4ubuntu21.8

    Affected versions

    225-1ubuntu9

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High