CVE-2019-9971
HIGH 8.8EPSS 1.7%
PhoneSystem Terminal in 3CX Phone System (Debian based installation) 16.0.0.1570 allows an attacker to gain root privileges by using sudo with the tcpdump command, without a password. This occurs because the -z (aka postrotate-command) option to tcpdump can be unsafe when used in conjunction with sudo.
- CVSS v3.1 NVD
- 8.8 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 9.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C - EPSS
- 1.69% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 77th percentile
- Published
- 2022-06-07
- Updated
- 2024-08-04
Proof-of-concept exploits (1)
Security advisories
- https://www.gosecure.net/blog
- https://www.gosecure.net/blog/2022/05/31/security-advisory-multiple-vulnerabilities-impac…
- https://www.securusglobal.com/community/2014/03/17/how-i-got-root-with-sudo