Security Advisory

CVE-2018-6558

6.5
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

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).
Published Date August 23, 2018
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory