CVE Catalog

CVE-2018-16497

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.23%

13th percentile - higher than 13% of all known CVEs

Summary

In Versa Analytics, 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.

Risk Assessment

Users in the versa group can modify the script executed as root, potentially leading to privilege escalation and full system compromise.

Recommendation

Change permissions on cron scripts so they are not writable by unprivileged users. Run cron jobs with least privileges required.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS