CVE-2014-2533
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
8.2
Description
/sbin/ifwatchd in BlackBerry QNX Neutrino RTOS 6.4.x and 6.5.x allows local users to gain privileges by providing an arbitrary program name as a command-line argument.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Exploits
Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.
Metasploit modules
Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
References
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2014/Mar/66
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2014/Mar/88
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/124
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/98
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/32153/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45575/
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2014/Mar/66
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2014/Mar/88
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/124
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/98
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/32153/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45575/
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.