#VU15675 Privilege escalation in systemd - CVE-2018-15686 

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#VU15675 Privilege escalation in systemd - CVE-2018-15686

Published: November 1, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU15675
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-15686
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
systemd
Software vendor:
Freedesktop.org

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.

The weakness exists due to an error in unit_deserialize of systemd. A remote attacker can supply arbitrary state across systemd re-execution via NotifyAccess and gain root privileges.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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