CVE-2018-18629

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Dec 20, 2018
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Oct 23, 2018

Description

An issue was discovered in the Keybase command-line client before 2.8.0-20181023124437 for Linux. An untrusted search path vulnerability in the keybase-redirector application allows a local, unprivileged user on Linux to gain root privileges via a Trojan horse binary.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://keybase.io/docs/secadv/kb002
https://blog.mirch.io/2018/12/21/cve-2018-18629-keybase-linux-privilege-escalation/
https://hackerone.com/reports/426944

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