CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-1122
7.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-05-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-829
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.
Affected configurations
• procps-ng project procps-ng (< 3.3.15)
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 17.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-829 Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00058.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00059.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/122 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104214 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2189 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0595 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1122 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00021.html Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-14 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-3/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4208 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44806/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txt Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00058.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00059.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/122 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104214 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2189 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0595 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1122 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00021.html Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-14 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-3/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4208 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44806/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txt Exploit, Third Party Advisory