CVE-2018-6558
- 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
- 2018-08-23T19:29:01Z
- Modified
- 2026-10-20T10:50:29Z
- Severity
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- 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
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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
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Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixedFixedFixed
- Database specific
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Show details
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