cve/2018/CVE-2018-1122.md

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.

POC

Reference

• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/122
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44806/
• https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txt

Github

No PoCs found on GitHub currently.