Local Privilege Escalation in CGM CLININET
- Published
- Last modified
- Status
- published
- Known exploitation
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Public exploit
- None on Exploit-DB
Summary
CGM CLININET, a clinical software product, is affected by this flaw, which allows a local user with the uhcapache account to modify service scripts and configuration files that the HL7 message-processing service runs as root. An attacker could use this to run arbitrary code with root-level privileges on the affected system.
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CGM CLININET is vulnerable to local privilege escalation. The service that processes incoming HL7 messages runs with root privileges, but due to incorrect permissions, its scripts and configuration files can be modified by the uhcapache user. An attacker with uhcapache privileges can modify these files to execute arbitrary code as root. The vulnerability was confirmed to affect versions up to 2026.MS3 but later versions may also be vulnerable.
Affected versions
- CGM CGM CLININET
through 2026.MS3