CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-6445

8.1 HIGH Published 2017-03-05 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-03-05
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.6 HIGH — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-311, CWE-347

Description

The auto-update feature of Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center (OpenELEC) 6.0.3, 7.0.1, and 8.0.4 uses neither encrypted connections nor signed updates. A man-in-the-middle attacker could manipulate the update packages to gain root access remotely.

Affected configurations

• openelec openelec 6.0.3 • openelec openelec 7.0.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-311 Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data weakness
  • CWE-347 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature weakness

References