How I discovered CVE-2017-13707

New Vulnerability Found Using Techniques Taught at Black Hat USA One of the topics I teach in Coalfires Adaptive Penetration Testing course, given most recently at Black Hat 2017, is manual privilege escalation on Linux- and Unix-based systems. I also talk about how common it is to gain an initia...

CVE-2017-13707

Privilege escalation in Replibit Backup Manager earlier than version 2017.08.04 allows attackers to gain root privileges via sudo command execution. The vi program can be accessed through sudo, in order to navigate the filesystem and modify a critical file such as /etc/passwd...

CVE-2017-13707

CVE-2017-13707 affects Replibit Backup Manager on Linux prior to 2017.08.04. The vulnerability is a local privilege escalation allowing an attacker to obtain root privileges by abusing sudo to access the vi editor and navigate the filesystem, potentially modifying files such as /etc/passwd. Multi...

CVE-2017-13707

Privilege escalation in Replibit Backup Manager earlier than version 2017.08.04 allows attackers to gain root privileges via sudo command execution. The vi program can be accessed through sudo, in order to navigate the filesystem and modify a critical file such as /etc/passwd...