CVE-2018-1122

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.

• CWE-829

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00058.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00059.html
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/122Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104214Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2189
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0595
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1122Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00021.htmlThird Party Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-14Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-1/Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-3/Third Party Advisory
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4208Third 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://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00058.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00059.html
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/122Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104214Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2189
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0595
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1122Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00021.htmlThird Party Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-14Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-1/Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3658-3/Third Party Advisory
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4208Third 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

May 23, 2018

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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