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CVE-2018-17496

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-03-21 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

eVisitorPass could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by an error while in kiosk mode. By visiting the kiosk and typing ctrl+shift+esc, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to open the task manager to kill the process or launch new processes on the system.

Affected products

• VisitorPass eVisitorPass: 1.5.5.2

References

• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/149656
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/149656

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