CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-20052

7.8 HIGH Published 2019-04-25 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-04-25
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-1188

Description

An issue was discovered on Cerner Connectivity Engine (CCE) 4 devices. The user running the main CCE firmware has NOPASSWD sudo privileges to several utilities that could be used to escalate privileges to root. One example is the "sudo ln -s /tmp/script /etc/cron.hourly/script" command.

Affected configurations

• cerner connectivity engine 4 firmware (< 201812)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-1188 Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default weakness

References