CVE-2017-5671: Honeywell Intermec PC23 Firmware

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Honeywell Intermec PM23, PM42, PM43, PC23, PC43, PD43, and PC42 industrial printers before 10.11.013310 and 10.12.x before 10.12.013309 have /usr/bin/lua installed setuid to the itadmin account, which allows local users to conduct a BusyBox jailbreak attack and obtain root privileges by overwriting the /etc/shadow file.

Affected products

• Honeywell Intermec PC23 Firmware: up to and including 10.10.011406
• Honeywell Intermec PC42 Firmware: up to and including 10.10.011406
• Honeywell Intermec PC43 Firmware: up to and including 10.10.011406
• Honeywell Intermec PD43 Firmware: up to and including 10.10.011406
• Honeywell Intermec PM23 Firmware: up to and including 10.10.011406
• Honeywell Intermec PM42 Firmware: up to and including 10.10.011406
• Honeywell Intermec PM43 Firmware: up to and including 10.10.011406

Published 2017-03-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.