What is CVE-2018-1063?

CVE-2018-1063 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Selinux Project Policycoreutils, classified under Improper Link Resolution Before File Access. CVSS score: 4.4/10. Published 2018-03-02.

How severe is CVE-2018-1063?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.4 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Selinux Project Policycoreutils

CVE-2018-1063

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 rela…

EPSS: 0.004 (31.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Selinux Project Policycoreutils — versions 2.5-11 and newer
Selinux_project Selinux
Redhat Enterprise_linux — versions 7.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-59 — Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Mitigation, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-1063?: CVE-2018-1063 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Selinux Project Policycoreutils, classified under Improper Link Resolution Before File Access. CVSS score: 4.4/10. Published 2018-03-02.
How severe is CVE-2018-1063?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.4 out of 10.