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CVE-2018-1122

Published: May 23, 2018

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

7.3

HIGH

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.

VendorProductVersions

[UNKNOWN]

procps-ng, procps

affected
procps-ng 3.3.15

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-829

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

USN-3658-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
DSA-4208
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
GLSA-201805-14
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_GENTOO
44806
exploit
x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
USN-3658-3
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
104214
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
RHSA-2019:2189
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
openSUSE-SU-2019:2376
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
openSUSE-SU-2019:2379
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
RHSA-2020:0595
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT

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