Vulnerability CVE-2018-6558


Published: 2018-08-23

Description:
The pam_fscrypt module in fscrypt before 0.2.4 may incorrectly restore primary and supplementary group IDs to the values associated with the root user, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a successful login through certain applications that use Linux-PAM (aka pam).

Type:

CWE-noinfo

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.9/10
4.9/10
6.8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Google -> Fscrypt 

 References:
https://github.com/google/fscrypt/commit/3022c1603d968c22f147b4a2c49c4637dd1be91b
https://github.com/google/fscrypt/commit/315f9b042237200174a1fb99427f74027e191d66
https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/77
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1787548

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