cve/2018/CVE-2018-18629.md

CVE-2018-18629

Description

An issue was discovered in the Keybase command-line client before 2.8.0-20181023124437 for Linux. An untrusted search path vulnerability in the keybase-redirector application allows a local, unprivileged user on Linux to gain root privileges via a Trojan horse binary.

POC

Reference

• https://blog.mirch.io/2018/12/21/cve-2018-18629-keybase-linux-privilege-escalation/
• https://blog.mirch.io/2018/12/21/cve-2018-18629-keybase-linux-privilege-escalation/

Github

• https://github.com/mirchr/security-research