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Privilege Escalation Affecting github.com/google/fscrypt/security Open this link in a new tab package, versions <0.2.4

0.0
medium

  • Attack Complexity

    Low

  • Integrity

    High

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  • snyk-id

    SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMGOOGLEFSCRYPTSECURITY-50084

  • published

    29 Aug 2018

  • disclosed

    22 Jan 2018

  • credit

    Unknown

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Introduced: 22 Jan 2018

CVE-2018-6558 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-265 Open this link in a new tab

Overview

github.com/google/fscrypt/security is a Go tool for managing Linux filesystem encryption.

Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. It incorrectly restored primary and supplementary group IDs to the values associated with the root user, which allowed attackers to gain privileges via a successful login through certain applications that use Linux-PAM (aka pam).

Remediation

Upgrade github.com/google/fscrypt/security to version 0.2.4 or higher.