CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-16497

7.8 HIGH Published 2021-05-26 Modified 2026-08-31 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2021-05-26
Last modified
2026-08-31
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/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-269

Description

In Versa Analytics, the cron jobs are used for scheduling tasks by executing commands at specific dates and times on the server. If the job is run as the user root, there is a potential privilege escalation vulnerability. In this case, the job runs a script as root that is writable by users who are members of the versa group.

Affected configurations

• versa-networks versa analytics (< 16.1R2S11) • versa-networks versa analytics (>= 20.2.0 < 20.2.2) • versa-networks versa analytics (>= 21.1.0 < 21.1.1) • versa-networks versa analytics (>= 21.2.0 < 21.2.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References