CVE-2018-1121

procps-ng, procps is vulnerable to a process hiding through race condition. Since the kernel's proc_pid_readdir() returns PID entries in ascending numeric order, a process occupying a high PID can use inotify events to determine when the process list is being scanned, and fork/exec to obtain a lower PID, thus avoiding enumeration. An unprivileged attacker can hide a process from procps-ng's utilities by exploiting a race condition in reading /proc/PID entries. This vulnerability affects procps and procps-ng up to version 3.3.15, newer versions might be affected also.

• CWE-367
• CWE-362

• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/122Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104214Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1121Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44806/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txtExploit, Third Party Advisory
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/122Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104214Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1121Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44806/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txtExploit, Third Party Advisory

Published

Jun 13, 2018

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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