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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2018-05-23T14:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T03:51:48.790Z

Reserved: 2017-12-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-1122

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-05-23T14:29:00.217

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:59:13.633

Link: CVE-2018-1122

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-05-17T17:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-1122 - Bugzilla