CVE-2011-2921

60Vexday Risk Score

Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.

ssvc Attendepss 83%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDNov 19

1st PoCSep 3

metasploitAug 13

exploitation probability

83%top 1% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

2 public exploit(s)

ktsuss versions 1.4 and prior has the uid set to root and does not drop privileges prior to executing user specified commands, which can result in command execution with root privileges.

Affected products

ktsuss · ktsuss

public PoCs found — 2✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/47344 cve_referencepacketstormsecurity.com/files/154307/ktsuss-Suid-Privilege-Escalation.htmlunverified

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154307/ktsuss-Suid-Privilege-Escalation.html https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2921 https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2921