Security Advisory

CVE-2018-16497

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-05-26 18:45:57
Last updated 2024-08-05 10:24:32
Assigner hackerone
State PUBLISHED

Description

In Versa Analytics, the cron jobs are used for scheduling tasks by executing commands at specific dates and times on the server. If the job is run as the user root, there is a potential privilege escalation vulnerability. In this case, the job runs a script as root that is writable by users who are members of the versa group.