Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2018-18955 First vendor Publication 2018-11-16
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2020-08-24

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 7
Base Score 7 Environmental Score 7
impact SubScore 5.9 Temporal Score 7
Exploitabality Sub Score 1
 
Attack Vector Local Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required Low User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.4 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

In the Linux kernel 4.15.x through 4.19.x before 4.19.2, map_write() in kernel/user_namespace.c allows privilege escalation because it mishandles nested user namespaces with more than 5 UID or GID ranges. A user who has CAP_SYS_ADMIN in an affected user namespace can bypass access controls on resources outside the namespace, as demonstrated by reading /etc/shadow. This occurs because an ID transformation takes place properly for the namespaced-to-kernel direction but not for the kernel-to-namespaced direction.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-18955

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 3
Os 3186

Metasploit Database

id Description
2018-11-15 Linux Nested User Namespace idmap Limit Local Privilege Escalation

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105941
CONFIRM https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190416-0003/
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K39103040
EXPLOIT-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45886/
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45915/
MISC http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d2f...
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1712
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.18.19
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.19.2
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d2f007dbe7e4c9583eea6eb04d60001e85c6...
UBUNTU https://usn.ubuntu.com/3832-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3833-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3835-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3836-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3836-2/

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