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CVE-2018-16359

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-16359 describes a medium-severity vulnerability in Google gVisor versions prior to 2018-08-23, where the seccomp sandbox incorrectly permits access to the renameat system call. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to rename files on the host operating system, leading to a high impact on integrity. While the attack complexity is high, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2018-08-23CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:gvisor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.8MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
36.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0045 is in the 5th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

bugs.chromium.org / p/project-zero/issues/detail
Vendor Advisory
github.com / google/gvisor/commit/001a4c2493b13a43d62c7511fb509a959ae4abc2
Third Party Advisory