CVE-2018-6558

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CVSS 3.0

6.5 medium

EPSS

<1%p48

Published

Aug 23, 2018 (Aug 23, 2018)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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).

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

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.6%)

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