CVE-2018-15686

Description

A vulnerability in unit_deserialize of systemd allows an attacker to supply arbitrary state across systemd re-execution via NotifyAccess. This can be used to improperly influence systemd execution and possibly lead to root privilege escalation. Affected releases are systemd versions up to and including 239.

References

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/10519

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105747

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45714/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-10

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3816-1/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00017.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2091

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3222

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0593

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/[email protected]%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3