Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Honeywell Industrial Printers

Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Honeywell Industrial Printers

CVE-2017-5671 · HIGH Severity

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

Honeywell Intermec PM23, PM42, PM43, PC23, PC43, PD43, and PC42 industrial printers before 10.11.013310 and 10.12.x before 10.12.013309 have /usr/bin/lua installed setuid to the itadmin account, which allows local users to conduct a BusyBox jailbreak attack and obtain root privileges by overwriting the /etc/shadow file.

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