CVE-2018-1122
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
5.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1122
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1122.html
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 3.3.15-1 | |
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 2:3.3.15-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 2:3.3.15-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 2:3.3.15-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 2:3.3.15-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 2:3.3.15-1 |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.