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CVE-2018-6558

Published: Aug 23, 2018 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4.9 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6558
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

The pam_fscrypt module in fscrypt before 0.2.4 may incorrectly restore primary and supplementary group IDs to the values associated with the root user, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a successful login through certain applications that use Linux-PAM (aka pam).

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Fscrypt Google * 0.2.4 (excluding)
Fscrypt Ubuntu bionic *
Fscrypt Ubuntu cosmic *
Fscrypt Ubuntu upstream *

References

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