CVE-2018-20052: An issue was discovered on Cerner Connectivity Engine (CCE) 4 devices. The user running the main CCE firmware has NOPASSWD sudo privileges to several utilities…

PriorityP340high7.8CVSS 3.0

AVLACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.38%

29.6th percentile

An issue was discovered on Cerner Connectivity Engine (CCE) 4 devices. The user running the main CCE firmware has NOPASSWD sudo privileges to several utilities that could be used to escalate privileges to root. One example is the "sudo ln -s /tmp/script /etc/cron.hourly/script" command.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
cerner	connectivity_engine_4_firmware	< 201812	201812

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.07.8HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.07.2HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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