CVE-2018-1122
procps-ng Local Privilege Escalation
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.
INFO
Published Date :
May 23, 2018, 2:29 p.m.
Last Modified :
Nov. 21, 2024, 3:59 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
No
Impact Score :
5.9
Exploitability Score :
1.3
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github
CVE-2018-1122 has a 1 public PoC/Exploit available at Github.
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Affected Products
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vulnerability.
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The following list is the news that have been mention
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CVE-2018-1122 vulnerability over time.
Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00058.html Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00059.html Added Reference http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/122 Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104214 Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2189 Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0595 Added Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1122 Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00021.html Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-14 Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-1/ Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-3/ Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4208 Added Reference https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44806/ Added Reference https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txt -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Feb. 25, 2020
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0595 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 27, 2019
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00059.html [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 26, 2019
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00058.html [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 09, 2019
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CVSS V3 Red Hat, Inc. AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Added CWE Red Hat, Inc. CWE-829 -
CWE Remap by [email protected]
Oct. 03, 2019
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed CWE CWE-264 CWE-264 NVD-CWE-noinfo -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Aug. 06, 2019
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2189 [No Types Assigned] -
Modified Analysis by [email protected]
Mar. 27, 2019
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed Reference Type https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-3/ No Types Assigned https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-3/ Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-14 No Types Assigned https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-14 Third Party Advisory Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 21, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-14 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Aug. 17, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-3/ [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Jun. 22, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CVSS V2 (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) Added CVSS V3 AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Changed Reference Type http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/122 No Types Assigned http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/122 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00021.html No Types Assigned https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00021.html Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-1/ No Types Assigned https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-1/ Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4208 No Types Assigned https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4208 Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104214 No Types Assigned http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104214 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry Changed Reference Type https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txt No Types Assigned https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txt Exploit, Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44806/ No Types Assigned https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44806/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1122 No Types Assigned https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1122 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory Added CWE CWE-264 Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:procps-ng_project:procps-ng:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 3.3.15 Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Jun. 02, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44806/ [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00021.html [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 25, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4208 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-1/ [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104214 [No Types Assigned]
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2018-1122 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2018-1122
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
0.06 }} 0.01%
score
0.25900
percentile