CVE-2018-1122
At a glance Severity HIGH 7.3 EPSS EPSS 1.27 % · percentile 70 (2026-10-27) State PUBLISHED Published 2018-05-23 Updated 2024-08-05 Assigner redhat NVD status Modified 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.
Scores Version Score Vector Scored by CVSS 3.0 HIGH 7.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H redhat CVSS 3.0 HIGH 7.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H NVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary) CVSS 3.0 HIGH 7.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary) CVSS 2.0 MEDIUM 4.4 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
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Affected configurations (NVD CPE) cpe:2.3:a:procps-ng_project:procps-ng:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 3.3.15cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*Affected products
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