CVE-2017-6554 (GCVE-0-2017-6554)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-04-14 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 15:33
VLAI
Summary
pmmasterd in Quest Privilege Manager before 6.0.0.061, when configured as a policy server, allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files and consequently execute arbitrary code with root privileges via an ACT_NEWFILESENT action.
Severity
7.2 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2017-04-10 00:00
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