CVE-2018-1063

policycoreutils: Relabelling of symbolic links in /tmp and /var/tmp change the context of their target instead

Published Mar 2, 2018 CVSS 3.0 · 4.4 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-11716 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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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 5, 2024, 3:51 AM
Reserved
Dec 4, 2017, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Mar 2, 2018, 3:29 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 1:50 AM
Severity
Low
Public date
Feb 28, 2018, 12:00 AM