Vulnerability CVE-2014-0748


Published: 2014-12-26   Modified: 2014-12-27

Description:
apinit on Cray devices with CLE before 4.2.UP02 and 5.x before 5.1.UP00 does not use alpsauth data to validate the UID in a launch message, which allows local users to gain privileges via a modified aprun program, aka ID FN5912.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Cray Aprun / Apinit Privilege Escalation
John Fitzpatrick...
12.02.2014
Med.
Cray Aprun/Apinit Privilege Escalation
John & Luke
12.02.2014

Type:

CWE-20

(Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.2/10
10/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
CRAY -> Cray linux environment 

 References:
https://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/advisories/2014/01/31/cray-aprunapinit-privilege-escalation/

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