Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-20052 - Insecure Default Initialization of Resource vulnerability in Cerner Connectivity Engine 4 Firmware

047910
CVSS 7.8 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
local
low complexity
cerner
CWE-1188

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Cerner
1
Hardware
Cerner
1