CVE-2018-21269

Name

CVE-2018-21269

Description

checkpath in OpenRC through 0.42.1 might allow local users to take ownership of arbitrary files because a non-terminal path component can be a symlink.

NVD Severity

medium

Other trackers

CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia

Mailing lists

oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq

Exploits

Exploit DB, Metasploit

Forges

GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type	URI
Exploit	https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/issues/201

Match rules

CPE URI	Source package	Min version	Max version
`cpe:2.3:a:openrc_project:openrc::::::::`	openrc	>= None	<= 0.42.1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package	Branch	Version	Maintainer	Status
openrc	3.12-main	0.42.1-r14	Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>	fixed
openrc	3.12-main	0.42.1-r13	Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>	fixed
openrc	3.12-main	0.42.1-r12	Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>	fixed
openrc	3.11-main	0.42.1-r3	Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>	fixed
openrc	3.10-main	0.41.2-r2	Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>	fixed