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

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

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

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

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

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1b103833cb5bc8466e24ff0ecc5e75b45a705334ab6a444e64e840a0%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

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

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3