Security readout for executives and security teams
A very old flaw in the HP-UX 11.0 Unix operating system lets someone who already has a login on the machine trick a built-in dial-up utility into giving them higher system privileges. It only matters if you still run this legacy HP-UX system, which reached end-of-life many years ago. Exposure is limited to legacy HP-UX 11.0 hosts where the cu utility is installed with elevated privileges and local user accounts exist. HP-UX 11.0 is long past vendor support, so exposure today is primarily in unretired legacy environments or archival systems. Low urgency for most organizations. Only relevant if legacy HP-UX 11.0 systems remain in production, in which case retire or isolate them as part of standard end-of-life hardening. Mitigation focus: Inventory any remaining HP-UX 11.0 hosts and plan migration off unsupported platforms.; Consult HP/HPE legacy advisories for patches or workarounds specific to the cu utility.; Remove or restrict the setuid/setgid bit on the cu binary if not required..
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- hp-cu-bo(5460)CVE reference · vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
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