CVE-2017-4985: Emc VNX1 Firmware

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In EMC VNX2 versions prior to OE for File 8.1.9.211 and VNX1 versions prior to OE for File 7.1.80.8, a local authenticated user may potentially escalate their privileges to root due to authorization checks not being performed on certain perl scripts. This may potentially be exploited by an attacker to run arbitrary commands as root on the targeted VNX Control Station system.

Affected products

• Emc VNX1 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Emc VNX2 Firmware: affected versions not specified

Published 2017-06-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.