CVE-2018-1122

Description

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.

Risk Information

Base Score
7.0
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.317

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
/proc file system utilities (USN-3658-1) procps_3.3.9-1ubuntu2.3_i386.debLinux
/proc file system utilities (USN-3658-1) procps_3.3.9-1ubuntu2.3_amd64.debLinux
/proc file system utilities (USN-3658-1) procps_3.3.10-4ubuntu2.4_i386.debLinux
/proc file system utilities (USN-3658-1) procps_3.3.10-4ubuntu2.4_amd64.debLinux
/proc file system utilities (USN-3658-1) procps_3.3.12-1ubuntu2.1_i386.debLinux
/proc file system utilities (USN-3658-1) procps_3.3.12-1ubuntu2.1_amd64.debLinux
/proc file system utilities (USN-3658-1) procps_3.3.12-3ubuntu1.1_i386.debLinux
/proc file system utilities (USN-3658-1) procps_3.3.12-3ubuntu1.1_amd64.debLinux
/proc file system utilities (USN-3658-1) libprocps3_3.3.9-1ubuntu2.3_i386.debLinux
/proc file system utilities (USN-3658-1) libprocps3_3.3.9-1ubuntu2.3_amd64.debLinux
/proc file system utilities (USN-3658-1) libprocps4_3.3.10-4ubuntu2.4_i386.debLinux
/proc file system utilities (USN-3658-1) libprocps4_3.3.10-4ubuntu2.4_amd64.debLinux
/proc file system utilities (USN-3658-1) libprocps6_3.3.12-1ubuntu2.1_i386.debLinux
/proc file system utilities (USN-3658-1) libprocps6_3.3.12-1ubuntu2.1_amd64.debLinux
/proc file system utilities (USN-3658-1) libprocps6_3.3.12-3ubuntu1.1_i386.debLinux
/proc file system utilities (USN-3658-1) libprocps6_3.3.12-3ubuntu1.1_amd64.debLinux
procps security update(DSA-4208-1) procps_3.3.9-9+deb8u1_i386.debLinux
procps security update(DSA-4208-1) procps_3.3.9-9+deb8u1_amd64.debLinux
procps security update(DSA-4208-1) procps_3.3.12-3+deb9u1_i386.debLinux
procps security update(DSA-4208-1) procps_3.3.12-3+deb9u1_amd64.debLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:1836-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libprocps3-3.3.9-11.11.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:1836-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libprocps3-debuginfo-3.3.9-11.11.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:1836-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) procps-3.3.9-11.11.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:1836-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) procps-debuginfo-3.3.9-11.11.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:1836-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) procps-debugsource-3.3.9-11.11.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2042-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 ) procps-3.2.7-152.31.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2451-2(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libprocps3-3.3.9-11.14.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2451-2(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libprocps3-debuginfo-3.3.9-11.14.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2451-2(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) procps-3.3.9-11.14.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2451-2(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) procps-debuginfo-3.3.9-11.14.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:2451-2(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) procps-debugsource-3.3.9-11.14.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2019:0450-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4 ) libprocps3-3.3.9-11.18.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2019:0450-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4 ) libprocps3-debuginfo-3.3.9-11.18.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2019:0450-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4 ) procps-3.3.9-11.18.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2019:0450-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4 ) procps-debuginfo-3.3.9-11.18.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2019:0450-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4 ) procps-debugsource-3.3.9-11.18.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2019:2189)Moderate: security and bug fix update procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-26.el7.i686.rpmLinux
(RHSA-2019:2189)Moderate: security and bug fix update procps-ng-debuginfo-3.3.10-26.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
Procps-ng update (ELSA-2019-2189) procps-ng-3.3.10-26.el7.i686.rpmLinux
Procps-ng update (ELSA-2019-2189) procps-ng-3.3.10-26.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux
procps-ng Security Update (ALAS-2019-1333) procps-ng-3.3.10-26.amzn2.i686.rpmLinux
procps-ng Security Update (ALAS-2019-1333) procps-ng-3.3.10-26.amzn2.x86_64.rpmLinux
procps-ng Security Update (ALAS-2019-1333) procps-ng-i18n-3.3.10-26.amzn2.x86_64.rpmLinux
procps-ng Security Update (ALAS-2019-1333) procps-ng-devel-3.3.10-26.amzn2.x86_64.rpmLinux
CVE-2018-1122NCM

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234