CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-6558

Published: Aug 23, 2018 | Modified: Oct 03, 2019
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

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)

References