CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-9859

Published: Jun 16, 2018 | Modified: Oct 03, 2019

CVSS 3.x

8.1

HIGH

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS 2.x

5.1 MEDIUM

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-9859
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

The path of Whale update service was unquoted in NAVER Whale before 1.0.40.7. This vulnerability can be used for persistent privilege escalation if its available to create an executable file with System privilege by other vulnerable applications.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Whale	Navercorp	*	1.0.40.7 (excluding)

References

https://cve.naver.com/detail/cve-2018-9859.html

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