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CVE-2018-16497

Published: May 26, 2021

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	Versa Analytics	affected `Fixed Versions: 16.1R2S11, 20.2.2, 21.1.1, 21.2.1`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://hackerone.com/reports/1168194

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