It was discovered that systemd is vulnerable to a state injection attack when deserializing the state of a service. Properties longer than LINE_MAX are not correctly parsed and an attacker may abuse this flaw in particularly configured services to inject, change, or corrupt the service state.
Find out more about CVE-2018-15686 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS3 Base Score | 3.6 |
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CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L |
Attack Vector | Local |
Attack Complexity | High |
Privileges Required | Low |
User Interaction | None |
Scope | Unchanged |
Confidentiality | None |
Integrity Impact | Low |
Availability Impact | Low |
Platform | Package | State |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | systemd | Affected |