CVE-2017-3891

In BlackBerry QNX Software Development Platform (SDP) 6.6.0, an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the default configuration of the QNX SDP with QNet enabled on networks comprising two or more QNet nodes could allow an attacker to access local and remote files or take ownership of files on other QNX nodes regardless of permissions by executing commands targeting arbitrary nodes from a secondary QNX 6.6.0 QNet node.

Score

CVSS 3.1 9.6 Critical

Status

Modified - secure@blackberry.com

Published

2017-11-14

Last modified

2025-08-22

Weaknesses

CWE-863, CWE-923

Affected products

• Qnx Software Development Platform (Blackberry)
• Qnx Software Development Platform Qnx Sdp (Blackberry)

References

• http://support.blackberry.com/kb/articleDetail?articleNumber=000046674
• https://www.midnightbluelabs.com/blog/2017/12/8/elevation-of-privilege-vulnerability-in-qnx-qnet