CVE-2018-15912 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in manjaro-update-system.sh within Manjaro Linux, affecting manjaro-system 20180716-1. A local attacker can exploit this to install or remove arbitrary packages and repositories, potentially executing arbitrary code as root or causing system instability. Rated 7.8 HIGH, this vulnerability requires local access and has low attack complexity, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 20180716-1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:manjaro:manjaro_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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.