High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 25, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-20052
CVE-2018-20052
Description
An issue was discovered on Cerner Connectivity Engine (CCE) 4 devices. The user running the main CCE firmware has NOPASSWD sudo privileges to several utilities that could be used to escalate privileges to root. One example is the "sudo ln -s /tmp/script /etc/cron.hourly/script" command.
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References
1- www.securifera.com/advisories/cve-2018-20052-20053/nvdThird Party Advisory
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