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CVE-2018-0492

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Date: April 3, 2018

Johnathan Nightingale beep through 1.3.4, if setuid, has a race condition that allows local privilege escalation.

Language: Unix

Severity Score

7.0

Related Resources (9)

Url: https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4163

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2018/msg00089.html

Url: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44452/

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-0492

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-15

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00002.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-0492

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-0492

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2018-0492

Severity Score

7.0

Weakness Type (CWE)

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

CWE-362

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version beep - 1.4.4-1

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.0
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.4
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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