CVE-2019-9971

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jun 7, 2022
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Mar 23, 2019

Description

PhoneSystem Terminal in 3CX Phone System (Debian based installation) 16.0.0.1570 allows an attacker to gain root privileges by using sudo with the tcpdump command, without a password. This occurs because the -z (aka postrotate-command) option to tcpdump can be unsafe when used in conjunction with sudo.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://www.securusglobal.com/community/2014/03/17/how-i-got-root-with-sudo/
https://www.gosecure.net/blog
https://www.gosecure.net/blog/2022/05/31/security-advisory-multiple-vulnerabilities-impact-3cx-phone-system/

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