CVE-2018-15687

7.0 highEPSS 1.1%

High (7.0). EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.0 high

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

EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 64% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-362
Published: 2018-10-26
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

canonical:ubuntu_linux
systemd_project:systemd

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105748
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/10517/commits
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-10
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3816-1/
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45715/

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