CVE-2018-6558

medium

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).

References

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-08-23

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00219