CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-5671
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-03-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/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-269
Description
Honeywell Intermec PM23, PM42, PM43, PC23, PC43, PD43, and PC42 industrial printers before 10.11.013310 and 10.12.x before 10.12.013309 have /usr/bin/lua installed setuid to the itadmin account, which allows local users to conduct a BusyBox jailbreak attack and obtain root privileges by overwriting the /etc/shadow file.
Affected configurations
• honeywell intermec pc23 firmware (<= 10.10.011406)
• honeywell intermec pc42 firmware (<= 10.10.011406)
• honeywell intermec pc43 firmware (<= 10.10.011406)
• honeywell intermec pd43 firmware (<= 10.10.011406)
• honeywell intermec pm23 firmware (<= 10.10.011406)
• honeywell intermec pm42 firmware (<= 10.10.011406)
• honeywell intermec pm43 firmware (<= 10.10.011406)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- http://apps.intermec.com/downloads/eps_download/Firmware%20Release%20Notes%20x10_11_013310.pdf Release Notes
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97236 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://akerva.com/blog/intermec-industrial-printers-local-root-with-busybox-jailbreak/ Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/kmkz/exploit/blob/master/CVE-2017-5671-Credits.pdf Vendor Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41754/ www.exploit-db.com
- http://apps.intermec.com/downloads/eps_download/Firmware%20Release%20Notes%20x10_11_013310.pdf Release Notes
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97236 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://akerva.com/blog/intermec-industrial-printers-local-root-with-busybox-jailbreak/ Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/kmkz/exploit/blob/master/CVE-2017-5671-Credits.pdf Vendor Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41754/ www.exploit-db.com