CVE-2018-0493 — Vulnetix

CVE-2018-0493 PUBLISHED

remctld in remctl before 3.14, when an attacker is authorized to execute a command that uses the sudo option, has a use-after-free that leads to a daemon crash, memory corruption, or arbitrary command execution.

EPSS 0.96% · 76.9th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.96%

76.9th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	remctl	3.10-1ubuntu1, 0, 3.9-2build1
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS	remctl	3.13-1build5, 0, 3.13-1build4

Exploit Intelligence

https://git.eyrie.org/?p=kerberos/remctl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=86c7e44090c988112a37589d2c7a94029eb5e641 (circl)
DSA-4159 (circl)
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/remctl/security/2018-04-01.html (circl)

Timeline

Apr 3, 2018 CVE Published
Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
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Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-0493 third-party-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-0493 third-party-advisory

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