Title: PowerD Remote Format String Vulnerability
Severity: CRITICAL
Description:
PowerD is a daemon to monitor an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS). It can notify remote hosts of a power failure.
A remote format-string vulnerability affects the PowerD. The application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input data before using it in a formatted-printing function. This issue presents itself when the daemon attempts to process specially crafted data as part of the 'WHATIDO' command. The daemon improperly includes the attacker-supplied data to a formatted-printing function.
A remote attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary code with superuser privileges, facilitating the complete compromise of an affected computer.
Affected Products:
- PowerD PowerD 2.0.2
References:
- Gotfault Security: Power Daemon v2.0.2 Remote Format String Exploit
- PowerD: PowerD Homepage
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