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CVE-2018-0492
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2018-04-03 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-362
Description
Johnathan Nightingale beep through 1.3.4, if setuid, has a race condition that allows local privilege escalation.
Affected products
- Beep Project Beep: through 1.3.4
- Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
References
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00002.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2018/msg00089.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-0492
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-15
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4163
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44452/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00002.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2018/msg00089.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-0492
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-15
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4163
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44452/
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