Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere Affecting procps-ng package, versions <0:3.3.10-26.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-PROCPSNG-8009922
  • published17 Sept 2024
  • disclosed17 May 2018

Introduced: 17 May 2018

CVE-2018-1122  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-829  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 procps-ng to version 0:3.3.10-26.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:2189.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream procps-ng package and not the procps-ng package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.