CVE-2017-5671

Summary

CVECVE-2017-5671
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-03-29 14:59:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionHoneywell Intermec PM23, PM42, PM43, PC23, PC43, PD43, and PC42 industrial printers before 10.11.013310 and 10.12.x before 10.12.013309 have /usr/bin/lua installed setuid to the itadmin account, which allows local users to conduct a BusyBox jailbreak attack and obtain root privileges by overwriting the /etc/shadow file.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-269

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Honeywell Intermec Pc23 - All All All
Hardware Honeywell Intermec Pc23 - All All All
Operating System Honeywell Intermec Pc23 Firmware All All All All
Hardware Honeywell Intermec Pc42 - All All All
Hardware Honeywell Intermec Pc42 - All All All
Operating System Honeywell Intermec Pc42 Firmware All All All All
Hardware Honeywell Intermec Pc43 - All All All
Hardware Honeywell Intermec Pc43 - All All All
Operating System Honeywell Intermec Pc43 Firmware All All All All
Hardware Honeywell Intermec Pd43 - All All All
Hardware Honeywell Intermec Pd43 - All All All
Operating System Honeywell Intermec Pd43 Firmware All All All All
Hardware Honeywell Intermec Pm23 - All All All
Hardware Honeywell Intermec Pm23 - All All All
Operating System Honeywell Intermec Pm23 Firmware All All All All
Hardware Honeywell Intermec Pm42 - All All All
Hardware Honeywell Intermec Pm42 - All All All
Operating System Honeywell Intermec Pm42 Firmware All All All All
Hardware Honeywell Intermec Pm43 - All All All
Hardware Honeywell Intermec Pm43 - All All All
Operating System Honeywell Intermec Pm43 Firmware All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Intermec Industrial Printers Local root with Busybox jailbreak – CVE-2017-5671 - Akerva MISC akerva.com Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Intermec PM43 Industrial Printer - Local Privilege Escalation - Hardware local Exploit EXPLOIT-DB www.exploit-db.com
Honeywell Intermec Industrial Printers CVE-2017-5671 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
503 Service Unavailable CONFIRM apps.intermec.com Release Notes
exploit/CVE-2017-5671-Credits.pdf at master · kmkz/exploit · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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