VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-6516

medium
Published 2017-03-14 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
6.7
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.7

Description

A Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in MagniComp's Sysinfo before 10-H64 for Linux and UNIX platforms could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges. Parts of SysInfo require setuid-to-root access in order to access restricted system files and make restricted kernel calls. This access could be exploited by a local attacker to gain a root shell prompt using the right combination of environment variables and command line arguments.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
66%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-44150 local multiple verified
Metasploit · 2018-02-20

MagniComp SysInfo - mcsiwrapper Privilege Escalation (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_multi/local/magnicomp_sysinfo_mcsiwrapper_priv_esc rank 600
MagniComp SysInfo mcsiwrapper Privilege Escalation
Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
magnicompsysinfo{"endIncluding":"10-h62"}

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.