Published: 23/08/2018 Updated: 03/10/2019

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 6.8

CVSS v3 Base Score: 6.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 2.8

VMScore: 436

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

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

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Debian Bug report logs - #907074 fscrypt: CVE-2018-6558 Package: src:fscrypt; Maintainer for src:fscrypt is Debian Go Packaging Team <team+pkg-go@trackerdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 19:18:01 UTC Severity: grave Tags: fixed-upstream, security, upstream Fou ...

NVD-CWE-noinfo https://launchpad.net/bugs/1787548 https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/77 https://github.com/google/fscrypt/commit/315f9b042237200174a1fb99427f74027e191d66 https://github.com/google/fscrypt/commit/3022c1603d968c22f147b4a2c49c4637dd1be91b https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=907074 https://nvd.nist.gov

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