CVSS 3.0
8.8 highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2017-5671
High (8.8) in honeywell. EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 72% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-269
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- honeywell:intermec_pc23_firmware
- honeywell:intermec_pc42_firmware
- honeywell:intermec_pc43_firmware
- honeywell:intermec_pd43_firmware
- honeywell:intermec_pm23_firmware
- honeywell:intermec_pm42_firmware
- honeywell:intermec_pm43_firmware
References
- http://apps.intermec.com/downloads/eps_download/Firmware%20Release%20Notes%20x10_11_013310.pdf
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97236
- https://akerva.com/blog/intermec-industrial-printers-local-root-with-busybox-jailbreak/
- https://github.com/kmkz/exploit/blob/master/CVE-2017-5671-Credits.pdf
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41754/