CVE-2018-16497

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 a...

CVE-2018-16497

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2021-05-27 03:22:57+00:00| published-proof-of-concept| Telegram/sWbSwE64E40kGg140ulBTnG0H8n-QrD5DJHlbKPc1kI...

CVE-2018-16497

CVE-2018-16497 describes a privilege escalation in Versa Analytics where cron jobs execute commands at set times. If a cron job runs as root and the script it executes is writable by members of the versa group, a non-root user could modify the script to execute with root privileges. The vulnerabi...