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CVE-2018-1121
LOW · CVSS 3.9
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-06-13T20:29:00.337 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:50:31.440

Summary

procps-ng, procps is vulnerable to a process hiding through race condition. Since the kernel's proc_pid_readdir() returns PID entries in ascending numeric order, a process occupying a high PID can use inotify events to determine when the process list is being scanned, and fork/exec to obtain a lower PID, thus avoiding enumeration. An unprivileged attacker can hide a process from procps-ng's utilities by exploiting a race condition in reading /proc/PID entries. This vulnerability affects procps and procps-ng up to version 3.3.15, newer versions might be affected also.

Affected products

procps_project — procps

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References

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