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CVE-2018-1125
procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to a stack buffer overflow in pgrep. This vulnerability is mitigated by FORTIFY, as it…
- 4.4MediumCVSS base score
- 1.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 21% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to a stack buffer overflow in pgrep. This vulnerability is mitigated by FORTIFY, as it involves strncat() to a stack-allocated string. When pgrep is compiled with FORTIFY (as on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora), the impact is limited to a crash.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium4.4 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L |
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.8% · top 21% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.4.
Affected products
- affected procps-ng 3.3.15
References
References10
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-1125 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-3658-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- DSA-4208 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180531 [SECURITY] [DLA 1390-1] procps security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-3658-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 104214 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20180517 Qualys Security Advisory - Procps-ng Audit Report (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://www.qualys.com/2018/05/17/procps-ng-audit-report-advisory.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2376 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2379 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-11769 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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