CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-1166

7.8 HIGH Published 2018-02-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-02-21
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-20, CWE-416

Description

This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations of Joyent SmartOS release-20170803-20170803T064301Z. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the SMBIOC_TREE_RELE ioctl. The issue results from the lack of validating the existence of an object prior to performing operations on the object. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code under the context of the host OS. Was ZDI-CAN-4984.

Affected configurations

• joyent smartos 20170803

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
  • CWE-416 Use After Free weakness

References