CVE-2017-4985

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions EMC VNX2 versions prior to 8.1.9.211 EMC VNX1 versions prior to 7.1.80.8

Description A local authenticated user may potentially escalate their privileges to root due to authorization checks not being performed on certain perl scripts. This may potentially be exploited by an attacker to run arbitrary commands as root on the targeted VNX Control Station system.

Recommendations For EMC VNX2 versions prior to 8.1.9.211, update to version 8.1.9.211 or later to resolve the issue. For EMC VNX1 versions prior to 7.1.80.8, update to version 7.1.80.8 or later to resolve the issue.