CVE-2018-16359 — Google gVisor before 2018-08-23, within the seccomp sandbox, permits access to t

Google gVisor before 2018-08-23, within the seccomp sandbox, permits access to the renameat system call, which allows attackers to rename files on the host OS.

01What is this vulnerability?

Google gVisor before 2018-08-23, within the seccomp sandbox, permits access to the renameat system call, which allows attackers to rename files on the host OS.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-09-02T22:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T10:24:31.955Z

09References

• bugs.chromium.org — https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1632
• github.com — https://github.com/google/gvisor/commit/001a4c2493b13a43d62c7511fb509a959ae4abc2