In the Linux kernel 4.15.x through 4.19.x before 4.19.2, map_write() in kernel/user_namespace.c allows privilege escalation because it mishandles nested user namespaces with more than 5 UID or GID ranges. A user who has CAP_SYS_ADMIN in an affected user namespace can bypass access controls on resources outside the namespace, as demonstrated by reading /etc/shadow. This occurs because an ID transformation takes place properly for the namespaced-to-kernel direction but not for the kernel-to-namespaced direction.
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2018-11-16T20:00:00
Updated: 2019-04-16T05:06:03
Reserved: 2018-11-05T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2018-18955
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NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2018-11-16T20:29:00.233
Modified: 2020-08-24T17:37:01.140
Link: CVE-2018-18955
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