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Case File

CVE-2018-1122

HIGH · CVSS 7.3 EPSS 1.30% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-05-23 · Last synced 2026-08-04

Field Assessment

AI analysis pending.

Exhibit — Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

Detected Signals
exploit
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CVE
CVE-2018-1122
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.3
EPSS
1.30%

Original Filing — NVD Description

procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to a local privilege escalation in top. If a user runs top with HOME unset in an attacker-controlled directory, the attacker could achieve privilege escalation by exploiting one of several vulnerabilities in the config_file() function.