Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-16359
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:18 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2018-16359
Complete source record
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