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CVE-2018-16359

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-09-02 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

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.

Affected products

• Google gVisor: before 2018-08-23 — fixed in 2018-08-23

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google gVisor 2018-08-23. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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

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