CVE-2018-6558
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2018-6558 |
|---|---|
| State | PUBLIC |
| Assigner | [email protected] |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2018-08-23 19:29:00 UTC |
| Updated | 2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC |
| 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). |
Risk And Classification
Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo
NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bug #1787548 “PAM fscrypt adds root(0) group to all users called...” : Bugs : fscrypt package : Ubuntu | MISC | launchpad.net | Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory |
| Ensure setting user privileges is reversible · google/fscrypt@3022c16 · GitHub | MISC | github.com | Patch, Third Party Advisory |
| Ensure keyring privilege changes are reversible · google/fscrypt@315f9b0 · GitHub | MISC | github.com | Patch, Third Party Advisory |
| pam_fscrypt messes up user groups during login · Issue #77 · google/fscrypt · GitHub | MISC | github.com | Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory |
| CVE Program record | CVE.ORG | www.cve.org | canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail | NVD | nvd.nist.gov | canonical, analysis |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.
Legacy QID Mappings
- 982075 Go (go) Security Update for github.com/google/fscrypt/security (GHSA-qj26-7grj-whg3)