Security Advisory
CVE-2018-1122
7.3
HIGH
Vulnerability Description
procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to a local privilege escalation in top. If a user runs top with HOME unset in an attacker-controlled directory, the attacker could achieve privilege escalation by exploiting one of several vulnerabilities in the config_file() function.
Published Date
May 23, 2018
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory