CVE-2011-3337 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability (eEye Audit ID 2499) affecting eEye Retina Network Security Scanner on HP-UX, IRIX, and Solaris. An attacker can exploit this by placing a malicious "gauntlet" program in an arbitrary directory under /usr/local/, which the scanner then executes with elevated privileges. With a CVSS score of 6.9 (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), this vulnerability has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires local access and medium attack complexity. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2406CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eeye:digital_security_audits:2406:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2423CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eeye:digital_security_audits:2423:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:eeye:retina_network_security_scanner:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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