Cerner Connectivity Engine 4 sudo privilege escalation

A vulnerability was found in Cerner Connectivity Engine 4. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some processing of the component sudo. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was shared 04/25/2019. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-20052 since 12/11/2018. A single authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/26/2019).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The issues 134055 are related to this entry.

Vendor

• Cerner

Name

• Connectivity Engine

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.0
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.0

VulDB Base Score: 8.0
VulDB Temp Score: 8.0
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Class: Privilege escalation (CWE-269)
Local: Yes
Remote: No

Availability: ?
Status: Not defined

Price Prediction: ?
Current Price Estimation: ?

Threat Intelligenceinfoedit

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Remediation: ?Recommended: no mitigation known
0-Day Time: ?12/11/2018 CVE assigned
04/25/2019 +135 days Advisory disclosed
04/26/2019 +1 days VulDB entry created
04/26/2019 +0 days VulDB last updateCVE: CVE-2018-20052 (?)
See also: ?Created: 04/26/2019 07:07 AM
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