Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Vantage Velocity - CVE-2020-9024
Published: February 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU25404
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-9024
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Iteris, Inc.
Affected software:
Vantage Velocity
Vantage Velocity
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to the affected devices have world-writable permissions for the "/root/cleardata.pl "
(executed as root by crond) and "/root/loadperl.sh" (executed as root at
boot time) scripts. A remote attacker can gain elevated privileges on the target system.
How to mitigate CVE-2020-9024
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.