VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-20052

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.38%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-04-25
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

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

Primary references