CVE-2016-1611

EPSS 1.2%

Vexday Risk Score

23Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Attend

PoC available → attend closely

Exploit maturity

Proof of concept

Public proof of concept exists, but not yet automated.

CVSS —EPSS 1.2%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

25 Jul 2016Public PoC

01 Aug 2016Published on NVD

Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.

Novell Filr 1.2 before Hot Patch 6 and 2.0 before Hot Patch 2 uses world-writable permissions for /etc/profile.d/vainit.sh, which allows local users to gain privileges by replacing this file's content with arbitrary shell commands.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 2

cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/40161/unverified exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/40161unverified

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

References

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Jul/119 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40161/https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7017689 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92113