PoC Index

CVE-2018-1122

HIGH 7.3EPSS 1.3%

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.

CVSS v3.0
7.0 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v3.0
7.3 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2.0
4.4 MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
1.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 68th percentile
Published
2018-05-23
Updated
2024-08-05

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

ExploitDB entries (1)

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