CVE-2007-4390
The Command Line Interface (CLI), aka Adonis Administration Console, on the BlueCat Networks Adonis DNS/DHCP appliance 5.0.2.8 allows…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 1.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 37% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The Command Line Interface (CLI), aka Adonis Administration Console, on the BlueCat Networks Adonis DNS/DHCP appliance 5.0.2.8 allows local admin users to gain root privileges on the underlying operating system via shell metacharacters in a command.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- BlueCat Networks Adonis 5.0.2.8 - CLI Privilege Escalation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 30503local, linuxpublished 16 Aug 2007Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.0% · top 37% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- 26495 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 25342 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- adonis-dnsdhcpcli-privilege-escalation(36082) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1018584 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 3025 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 20070816 TS-2007-003-0: BlueCat Networks Adonis CLI root privilege escalation (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 39398 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 20070820 Re: TS-2007-003-0: BlueCat Networks Adonis CLI root privilege escalation (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2007-4373 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2007-4390)Record last updated .