CVE-2018-1122
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.3 High
- Published
- May 23, 2018
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Dec 4, 2017
Description
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 7.3 High | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | redhat |
Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
procps-ng, procps[UNKNOWN] |
|
References
- USN-3658-1vendor-advisory
- DSA-4208vendor-advisory
- GLSA-201805-14vendor-advisory
- 44806exploit
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180531 [SECURITY] [DLA 1390-1] procps security updatemailing-list
- USN-3658-3vendor-advisory
- 104214vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20180517 Qualys Security Advisory - Procps-ng Audit Reportmailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1122
- https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txt
- RHSA-2019:2189vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2376vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2379vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2020:0595vendor-advisory
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