CVE-2019-16242 Command injection in n/a

Medium 6.8 Published Updated

An attacker with physical access can execute arbitrary OS commands as root via the omamock engineering application on TCL Alcatel Flip 2 devices.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2019-16242?

CVE-2019-16242 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in n/a, published on 26 Nov 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

On TCL Alcatel Cingular Flip 2 B9HUAH1 devices, there is an engineering application named omamock that is vulnerable to OS command injection. An attacker with physical access to the device can abuse this vulnerability to execute arbitrary OS commands as the root user via the application's UI.

Weakness: CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-16242?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Alcatelmobile Cingular Flip 2 Firmware.

How do I fix CVE-2019-16242?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-16242 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2019-16242 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-16242 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-vxw8-3jmr-prjr.

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