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Linux Nested User Namespace idmap Limit Local Privilege Escalation

Posted Nov 28, 2018

Authored by Brendan Coles, Jann Horn | Site metasploit.com

This Metasploit module exploits a vulnerability in Linux kernels 4.15.0 to 4.18.18, and 4.19.0 to 4.19.1, where broken uid/gid mappings between nested user namespaces and kernel uid/gid mappings allow elevation to root (CVE-2018-18955). The target system must have unprivileged user namespaces enabled and the newuidmap and newgidmap helpers installed (from uidmap package). This Metasploit module has been tested successfully on: Fedora Workstation 28 kernel 4.16.3-301.fc28.x86_64; Kubuntu 18.04 LTS kernel 4.15.0-20-generic (x86_64); Linux Mint 19 kernel 4.15.0-20-generic (x86_64); Ubuntu Linux 18.04.1 LTS kernel 4.15.0-20-generic (x86_64).

tags | exploit, kernel, root

systems | linux, fedora, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2018-18955

SHA-256 | c991b79ae898a222baf512ec75bc5ae786505466b71b6453fd873f6b5482343c

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