Arbitrary File Write and Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Meinberg LANTIME Devices

CVE-2017-16788 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Directory traversal vulnerability in the "Upload Groupkey" functionality in the Web Configuration Utility in Meinberg LANTIME devices with firmware before 6.24.004 allows remote authenticated users with Admin-User access to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain root privileges by uploading a file, as demonstrated by storing a file in the cron.d directory.

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