CVE-2018-1166 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Joyent SmartOS release-20170803-20170803T064301Z. It stems from insufficient validation within the SMBIOC_TREE_RELE ioctl, allowing an attacker with low-privileged code execution to elevate privileges to the host OS context. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability has low attack complexity and no user interaction required, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
20170803CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:joyent:smartos:20170803:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.