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CVE-2018-1122highCWE-829

CVE-2018-1122

41Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendcvss 7.3epss 1.3%
from disclosure to weapon7 days
Published on NVDMay 23
1st PoC+7d
exploitation probability
1.3%top 32% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
2 public exploit(s)
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.
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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