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.
References
Link Resource
https://hackerone.com/reports/1168194 Third Party Advisory
History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: hackerone

Published: 2021-05-26T18:45:57

Updated: 2021-05-26T18:45:57

Reserved: 2018-09-04T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2018-16497

JSON object: View

cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-05-26T19:15:08.643

Modified: 2021-06-07T13:28:03.310


Link: CVE-2018-16497

JSON object: View

cve-icon Redhat Information

No data.

CWE