GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-qj26-7grj-whg3 Privilege Escalation in fscrypt
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2018-6558
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- github.com/google/fscrypt
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Reviewed
- 2021-05-20
Affected packages
• Go github.com/google/fscrypt: < 0.2.4 → fixed in 0.2.4
Description
The pam_fscrypt module in fscrypt before 0.2.4 may incorrectly restore primary and supplementary group IDs to the values associated with the root user, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a successful login through certain applications that use Linux-PAM (aka pam).
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2018-6558 The pam_fscrypt module in fscrypt before 0.2.4 may incorrectly restore primary and supplementary group IDs to the values associated with… vulnerability
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6558 advisory
- https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/77 web
- https://github.com/google/fscrypt/commit/3022c1603d968c22f147b4a2c49c4637dd1be91b web
- https://github.com/google/fscrypt/commit/315f9b042237200174a1fb99427f74027e191d66 web
- https://github.com/google/fscrypt package
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/1787548 web
- https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2020-0027 web