Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-3260 - Remote Privilege Escalation vulnerability in HP System Management Homepage

047910
CVSS 9.0 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
SINGLE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
network
low complexity
hp
critical

Summary

HP System Management Homepage (SMH) before 2.1.9 for Linux, when used with Novell eDirectory, assigns the eDirectory members to the root group, which allows remote authenticated eDirectory users to gain privileges.