CVE-2018-0492: Beep Project Beep

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Johnathan Nightingale beep through 1.3.4, if setuid, has a race condition that allows local privilege escalation.

Affected products

• Beep Project Beep: up to and including 1.3.4
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2018-04-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.