CVE-2018-17972

mediumpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.004 · 30 %ileEURUUS
grimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
0.36% (30th) EPSS
CVSS 4.9 · medium
Is it mine?
36 products
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Who says so?
3 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

An issue was discovered in the proc_pid_stack function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel through 4.18.11. It does not ensure that only root may inspect the kernel stack of an arbitrary task, allowing a local attacker to exploit racy stack unwinding and leak kernel task stack contents.

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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.5
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04.9mediumAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 6.9
v3.05.5mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 3.6
v3.05.1mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
v3.15.5mediumAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU
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weaknesses

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CWE-362USprimaryCWE-284USCWE-362US
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affected products (36)

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also known as (4)

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sources

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cnnvdenisa_euvdfstec_bduNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2018-10-03modified 2026-06-17
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references (76)

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