CVE-2018-1122

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1122
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-1122.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-1122
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-05-23T14:29:00.217Z
Modified
2026-03-15T21:54:54.987928Z
Severity
  • 7.0 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
7bb949bcba13c107fa0f45d2d0298b1ad6b6d6cc
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.3.15"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v3.*
v3.3.0
v3.3.1
v3.3.10
v3.3.11
v3.3.12
v3.3.13
v3.3.13rc1
v3.3.14
v3.3.2
v3.3.3
v3.3.4
v3.3.5
v3.3.6
v3.3.7
v3.3.8
v3.3.9

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-1122.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "12.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "14.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "16.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "17.10"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "18.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "7.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "8.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "9.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]