cvelist/2018/6xxx/CVE-2018-6558.json

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        "ASSIGNER": "security@ubuntu.com",
        "DATE_PUBLIC": "2018-08-23T17:00:00.000Z",
        "ID": "CVE-2018-6558",
        "STATE": "PUBLIC"
    },
    "affects": {
        "vendor": {
            "vendor_data": [
                {
                    "product": {
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                            {
                                "product_name": "fscrypt",
                                "version": {
                                    "version_data": [
                                        {
                                            "version_value": "before 0.2.4"
                                        }
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                                }
                            }
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                    },
                    "vendor_name": "The fscrypt Project"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    "data_format": "MITRE",
    "data_type": "CVE",
    "data_version": "4.0",
    "description": {
        "description_data": [
            {
                "lang": "eng",
                "value": "The pam_fscrypt module in fscrypt before 0.2.4 may incorrectly restore primary and supplementary group IDs to the values associated with the root user, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a successful login through certain applications that use Linux-PAM (aka pam)."
            }
        ]
    },
    "problemtype": {
        "problemtype_data": [
            {
                "description": [
                    {
                        "lang": "eng",
                        "value": "n/a"
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        ]
    },
    "references": {
        "reference_data": [
            {
                "name": "https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/77",
                "refsource": "MISC",
                "url": "https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/77"
            },
            {
                "name": "https://github.com/google/fscrypt/commit/3022c1603d968c22f147b4a2c49c4637dd1be91b",
                "refsource": "MISC",
                "url": "https://github.com/google/fscrypt/commit/3022c1603d968c22f147b4a2c49c4637dd1be91b"
            },
            {
                "name": "https://github.com/google/fscrypt/commit/315f9b042237200174a1fb99427f74027e191d66",
                "refsource": "MISC",
                "url": "https://github.com/google/fscrypt/commit/315f9b042237200174a1fb99427f74027e191d66"
            },
            {
                "name": "https://launchpad.net/bugs/1787548",
                "refsource": "MISC",
                "url": "https://launchpad.net/bugs/1787548"
            }
        ]
    },
    "source": {
        "discovery": "UNKNOWN"
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