CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2017-2740 — Hp Thinpro security vulnerability
High
CVSS 7.8
A potential security vulnerability has been identified with the command line shell of the HP ThinPro operating system 6.1, 5.2.1, 5.2, 5.1, 5.0, and 4.4. The vulnerability could result in a local unauthorized elevation of privilege on an HP thin client device.
- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 7.8 (3.0)
- Published
- 2018-01-23
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- operating-system
Affected products
- hp / thinpro / 4.4
- hp / thinpro / 5.0
- hp / thinpro / 5.1
- hp / thinpro / 5.2
- hp / thinpro / 5.2.1
- hp / thinpro / 6.1
Matched remediation archetype
Privilege escalation and unsafe privilege management
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Check exposure
- Map service accounts, operating-system identities, roles, capabilities, impersonation, set-user transitions, and administrative helper paths.
- Determine whether untrusted users or lower-privilege processes can reach the affected transition or modify inputs it trusts.
- Review file, socket, registry, device, job, container, and cloud-role permissions used before and after privilege changes.
Remediate safely
- Apply the supported fix and redesign privileged operations as a minimal, authenticated, allowlisted interface.
- Drop privileges before processing untrusted input, verify the drop succeeds, and remove unnecessary roles, capabilities, and write permissions.
- Validate ownership and permissions at time of use and add explicit lower-to-higher privilege boundary tests.
Authoritative sources
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