CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2017-6885 — Flexerasoftware Flexnet Manager Suite security vulnerability
Critical
CVSS 9.8
An error when handling certain external commands and services related to the FlexNet Inventory Agent and FlexNet Beacon of the Flexera Software FlexNet Manager Suite 2017 before 2017 R1 and 2014 R3 through 2016 R1 SP1 can be exploited to gain elevated privileges.
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS
- 9.8 (3.0)
- Published
- 2017-05-16
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
Affected products
- flexerasoftware / flexnet_manager_suite / 2014
- flexerasoftware / flexnet_manager_suite / 2015
- flexerasoftware / flexnet_manager_suite / 2016
- flexerasoftware / flexnet_manager_suite / 2017
Matched remediation archetype
General vulnerability remediation
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Check exposure
- Confirm the affected component, deployment paths, reachable interfaces, and enabled features from inventories and configuration, without probing production destructively.
- Compare the advisory's affected conditions with the repository lockfiles, build manifests, artifacts, and runtime inventory.
- Identify data sensitivity, trust boundaries, and privilege level for every confirmed affected deployment.
Remediate safely
- Apply a vendor-supported fix or remove the affected component or feature; record the selected change and its source in the repository.
- Update direct and transitive dependency locks, generated artifacts, deployment manifests, and asset inventories together.
- Add a regression test for the documented unsafe condition using inert inputs and preserve rollback instructions.
Authoritative sources
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