CVE-2018-6558

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6558
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-6558.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-6558
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2018-08-23T19:29:01.127Z
Modified
2026-07-08T19:01:35.132533Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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).

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/google/fscrypt

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/google/fscrypt
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
1e1b67dae6c3ae3b5acb5ce377b01b286c3e676b
Fixed
3022c1603d968c22f147b4a2c49c4637dd1be91b
Fixed
315f9b042237200174a1fb99427f74027e191d66
Database specific 
{
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:google:fscrypt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "0.2.4"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.1.0
0.2.0
0.2.1
0.2.2
v0.*
v0.1.0
v0.2.0
v0.2.1
v0.2.2
v0.2.3

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-6558.json"