CVE-2018-21269: Openrc Project Openrc

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

checkpath in OpenRC through 0.42.1 might allow local users to take ownership of arbitrary files because a non-terminal path component can be a symlink.

Affected products

• Openrc Project Openrc: up to and including 0.42.1

Published 2020-10-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.