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CVE-2018-1122
HIGH · CVSS 7.3
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-05-23T14:29:00.217 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:50:31.570

Summary

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.

Affected products

procps-ng_project — procps-ng

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