Security Advisory

CVE-2018-1122

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-05-23 14:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-05 03:51:48

Assigner redhat

CVSS score 7.3

State PUBLISHED

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.

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