eVisitorPass could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by an error while in kiosk mode. By visiting the kiosk and typing ctrl+shift+esc, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to open the task manager to kill the process or launch new processes on the system.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-9249 eVisitorPass could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by an error while in kiosk mode. By visiting the kiosk and typing ctrl+shift+esc, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to open the task manager to kill the process or launch new processes on the system.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: ibm

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-17T01:51:54.331Z

Reserved: 2018-09-25T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-17496

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-03-21T16:00:25.767

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:54:32.963

Link: CVE-2018-17496

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