CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-9811

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2017-07-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-07-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

The kluser is able to interact with the kav4fs-control binary in Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Linux File Server before Maintenance Pack 2 Critical Fix 4 (version 8.0.4.312). By abusing the quarantine read and write operations, it is possible to elevate the privileges to root.

Affected configurations

• kaspersky anti-virus for linux server (<= 8.0.3.297)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References