CVE Tools

Procps-ng

6 CVEs tracked. None of them is in CISA KEV.

This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Procps-ng, a product in the operating systems space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.

Procps-ng CVEs per month

Oct 2024 to Sep 2026. Point at a month, or focus the strip and use the arrow keys.
Procps-ng CVEs per month
MonthCVEs
2024-100
2024-110
2024-120
2025-010
2025-020
2025-030
2025-040
2025-050
2025-060
2025-070
2025-080
2025-090
2025-100
2025-110
2025-120
2026-010
2026-020
2026-030
2026-040
2026-050
2026-060
2026-070
2026-080
2026-090

Severity

How the 6 CVEs score on CVSS. Severity is not exploitation: KEV is counted above.

  • High350%
  • Medium117%
  • Low233%

Latest CVEs

The 6 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Procps-ng.

  1. CVE-2023-4016Under some circumstances, this weakness allows a user who has access to run the “ps” utility on a machine, the ability to write almost unlimited amounts of unfiltered data into the process heap.2.5
  2. CVE-2018-1123procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to a denial of service in ps via mmap buffer overflow. Inbuilt protection in ps maps a guard page at the end of the overflowed buffer, ensuring that th...3.9
  3. CVE-2018-1125procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to a stack buffer overflow in pgrep. This vulnerability is mitigated by FORTIFY, as it involves strncat() to a stack-allocated string. When pgrep is co...7.5
  4. CVE-2018-1122procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to a local privilege escalation in top. If a user runs top with HOME unset in an attacker-controlled directory, the attacker could achieve privilege es...7.3
  5. CVE-2018-1126procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to an incorrect integer size in proc/alloc.* leading to truncation/integer overflow issues. This flaw is related to CVE-2018-1124.4.8
  6. CVE-2018-1124procps-ng before version 3.3.15 is vulnerable to multiple integer overflows leading to a heap corruption in file2strvec function. This allows a privilege escalation for a local attacker who can cre...7.8

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