CVE-2018-0492

Publication date 3 April 2018

Last updated 17 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

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Description

Johnathan Nightingale beep through 1.3.4, if setuid, has a race condition that allows local privilege escalation.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
beep	17.10 artful	Fixed 1.3-4+deb9u1~build0.17.10.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.3-4+deb9u1~build0.16.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.3-3+deb8u1build0.14.04.1

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.0 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.0 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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