CVE-2018-1122
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-05-23 14:00
Modified
2024-08-05 03:51
Severity ?
7.3 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to a local privilege escalation in top. If a user runs top with HOME unset in an attacker-controlled directory, the attacker could achieve privilege escalation by exploiting one of several vulnerabilities in the config_file() function.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00058.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00059.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/122Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104214Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2189
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0595
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1122Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00021.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-14Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-1/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-3/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4208Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44806/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txtExploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
[UNKNOWN]procps-ng, procps
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