CVE-2018-20052: Cerner Connectivity Engine 4 Firmware

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered on Cerner Connectivity Engine (CCE) 4 devices. The user running the main CCE firmware has NOPASSWD sudo privileges to several utilities that could be used to escalate privileges to root. One example is the "sudo ln -s /tmp/script /etc/cron.hourly/script" command.

Affected products

• Cerner Connectivity Engine 4 Firmware: before 201812 (fixed in 201812)

Published 2019-04-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.