CVE-2018-20052

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-1188

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://www.securifera.com/advisories/cve-2018-20052-20053/Third Party Advisory
https://www.securifera.com/advisories/cve-2018-20052-20053/Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Apr 25, 2019
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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