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eVisitorPass could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by an error while in kiosk mode

Published Mar 19, 2019

Description

eVisitorPass could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by an error while in kiosk mode. By visiting the kiosk and typing ctrl+shift+esc, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to open the task manager to kill the process or launch new processes on the system.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (1)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner ibm
Published Mar 19, 2019
Updated Sep 17, 2024
Reserved Sep 25, 2018
Link CVE-2018-17496
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2018-17496
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2018-17496