CVE-2018-15686

2018-10-2600:00:00

ubuntu.com

7.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

7.2 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

61.7%

JSON

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.

Bugs

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu18.04noarchsystemd< 237-3ubuntu10.6UNKNOWN
ubuntu18.10noarchsystemd< 239-7ubuntu10.3UNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchsystemd< 229-4ubuntu21.8UNKNOWN