In Versa Analytics, the cron jobs are used for scheduling tasks by executing commands at specific dates and times on the server. If the job is run as the user root, there is a potential privilege escalation vulnerability. In this case, the job runs a script as root that is writable by users who are members of the versa group.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: hackerone

Published: 2021-05-26T18:45:57

Updated: 2024-08-05T10:24:32.964Z

Reserved: 2018-09-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-16497

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-05-26T19:15:08.643

Modified: 2021-06-07T13:28:03.310

Link: CVE-2018-16497

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