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CVE-2018-1063

Published: Mar 2, 2018Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-59
4.4MEDIUM
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.4%
Top 67.8%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Workaround Only
Self-Check
OpenVAS

Description

Context relabeling of filesystems is vulnerable to symbolic link attack, allowing a local, unprivileged malicious entity to change the SELinux context of an arbitrary file to a context with few restrictions. This only happens when the relabeling process is done, usually when taking SELinux state from disabled to enable (permissive or enforcing). The issue was found in policycoreutils 2.5-11.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:LAC:LPR:LUI:NS:UC:LI:LA:N
Exploitability
AV:LAttack Vector
Local
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:LPrivileges Required
Low
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:LConfidentiality
Low
I:LIntegrity
Low
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-59

Affected Products

SELinux Project
oss-projectaka selinux, policycoreutils
selinuxOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
policycoreutilsOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
redhat
commercial·USaka red hat
enterprise linuxOn-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro

Exploitability

Workaround Available
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Attack Graph

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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Collection
Discovery
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References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0913
access.redhat.com
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1550122
bugzilla.redhat.com

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