CVE-2008-2940
Published Aug 14, 2008
Last updated 7 years ago
Overview
- Description
- The alert-mailing implementation in HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) 1.6.7 allows local users to gain privileges and send e-mail messages from the root account via vectors related to the setalerts message, and lack of validation of the device URI associated with an event message.
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.2
- Impact score
- 10
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-264
Evaluator
- Comment
- -
- Impact
- http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2008/Aug/1020684.html "A local user can send specially crafted packets to cause the alert mailing function to execute arbitrary commands on the target system with root privileges. Impact: A local user can obtain root privileges on the target system."
- Solution
- http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2008/Aug/1020684.html "A local user can send specially crafted packets to cause the alert mailing function to execute arbitrary commands on the target system with root privileges. Impact: A local user can obtain root privileges on the target system."
Configurations
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}
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"operator": "OR"
}
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