CVE-2018-1122 (GCVE-0-2018-1122)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-05-23 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 03:51
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CWE
Assigner
References
14 references
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [UNKNOWN] | procps-ng, procps |
Affected:
procps-ng 3.3.15
|
guessed |
Date Public
2018-05-17 00:00
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"aggregate_severity": "Moderate",
"current_release_date": "2026-06-30T11:31:42+00:00",
"cve": "CVE-2018-1122",
"id": "CVE-2018-1122",
"initial_release_date": "2018-05-17T17:00:00+00:00",
"product_status:fixed": "202",
"product_status:known_affected": "4",
"product_status:known_not_affected": "4",
"source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
"status": "final",
"title": "procps: Local privilege escalation in top",
"url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2018/cve-2018-1122.json",
"version": "3"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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