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CVE-2018-15686

Public on 2018-10-26
Modified on 2021-06-22
Description

It was discovered that systemd is vulnerable to a state injection attack when deserializing the state of a service. Properties longer than LINE_MAX are not correctly parsed and an attacker may abuse this flaw in particularly configured services to inject, change, or corrupt the service state.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
3.6
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core systemd 2021-06-16 20:36 ALAS2-2021-1647

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 3.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
NVD CVSSv2 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
NVD CVSSv3 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H