vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-15686: Security patch for systemd (ALAS-2021-1647)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Oct 26, 2018
Added
Jun 24, 2021
Modified
Nov 27, 2024

Description

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.

Solutions

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