suse · CVE-2018-13405

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 14:14:54 UTC Updated: 2026-04-17 15:22:14 UTC

View at Official suse advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2018-13405 severity moderate: SUSE including 535 source package names (amazon/suse-sles-15-sp1-chost-byos-v20210304-hvm-ssd-x86_64, amazon/suse-sles-15-sp1-chost-byos-v20220127-hvm-ssd-x86_64, …), 907 product×package rows across 112 product lines (HPE Helion OpenStack 8, Image SLES12-SP5-Azure-BYOS, … (112 product lines)): Fixed 712, Known Affected 160, Known Not Affected 35.

Description:

The inode_init_owner function in fs/inode.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16 allows local users to create files with an unintended group ownership, in a scenario where a directory is SGID to a certain group and is writable by a user who is not a member of that group. Here, the non-member can trigger creation of a plain file whose group ownership is that group. The intended behavior was that the non-member can trigger creation of a directory (but not a plain file) whose group ownership is that group. The non-member can escalate privileges by making the plain file executable and SGID.

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