Access Restriction Bypass Affecting procps-ng package, versions [,3.3.15)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.27% (69th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PROCPSNG-2380360
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 May 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 May 2018

CVE-2018-1122  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade procps-ng to version 3.3.15 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass 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 Base Scores

version 3.1