CVE-2018-6558

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6558
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-6558.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-6558
Aliases
Related
Published
2018-08-23T19:29:01Z
Modified
2025-01-08T10:20:08.935593Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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).

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / fscrypt

Package

Name
fscrypt
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/fscrypt?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.2.4-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / fscrypt

Package

Name
fscrypt
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/fscrypt?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.2.4-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / fscrypt

Package

Name
fscrypt
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/fscrypt?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.2.4-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Git / github.com/google/fscrypt

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/google/fscrypt
Events

Affected versions

0.*

0.1.0
0.2.0
0.2.1
0.2.2

v0.*

v0.1.0
v0.2.0
v0.2.1
v0.2.2
v0.2.3