Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2018-15687

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.

  • Published: Oct 26, 2018
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2018-15687
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7
  • AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.9
  • AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
canonical / ubuntu_linux 16.04 16.04.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 18.04 18.04.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 18.10 18.10.x
systemd_project / systemd 235 240