CVE-2018-8029: Privilege escalation

May 30, 2019 (updated June 4, 2019)

A user who can escalate to yarn user can possibly run arbitrary commands as root user.

References

cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-8029
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/05/30/1

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