CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-4985

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-06-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-06-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-862

Description

In EMC VNX2 versions prior to OE for File 8.1.9.211 and VNX1 versions prior to OE for File 7.1.80.8, a local authenticated user may potentially escalate their privileges to root due to authorization checks not being performed on certain perl scripts. This may potentially be exploited by an attacker to run arbitrary commands as root on the targeted VNX Control Station system.

Affected configurations

• emc vnx2 firmware • emc vnx1 firmware

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness

References