CVE-2018-1122

HighCVSS 7.0/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.0/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-829

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: May 23, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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