CVE-2006-3693 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Rocks Clusters 4.1 and earlier. Attackers can leverage unfiltered escaped backticks in arguments to the mount-loop or umount-loop commands to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.6, indicating low attack complexity and requiring local access, but can lead to compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not on the KEV catalog or Hot List, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rocks_clusters:rocks_clusters:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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