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CVE-2018-6558

6.5 mediumEPSS 0.6%

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).

Severity

CVSS 3.0

6.5 medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 49% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-qj26-7grj-whg3Gogithub.com/google/fscrypt<0.2.40.2.4
GO-2020-0027Gogithub.com/google/fscrypt<0.2.40.2.4

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