Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-5198

Title: Solarwinds Log And Event Manager

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-5198.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Mar 24, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 8.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.10%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-5198: SolarWinds LEM (aka SIEM) before 6.3.1 has an incorrect sudo configuration, which allows local users to obtain root access by editing /usr/local/contego/scripts/hostname.sh.

Impacted Vendors

solarwinds 1

Reference Links

http://blog.0xlabs.com/2017/03/solarwinds-lem-ssh-jailbreak-and.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97094 http://blog.0xlabs.com/2017/03/solarwinds-lem-ssh-jailbreak-and.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97094

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

8.8

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

CHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns