A vulnerability was found in BlackBerry QNX Software Development Platform up to 6.5.0 SP1/6.6.0 (Operating System). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component QNX SDP. The manipulation as part of a Environment Variable leads to a information disclosure vulnerability (Memory). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

In BlackBerry QNX Software Development Platform (SDP) 6.6.0 and 6.5.0 SP1 and earlier, an information disclosure vulnerability in the default configuration of the QNX SDP could allow an attacker to gain information relating to memory layout of higher privileged processes by manipulating environment variables that influence the loader.

The bug was discovered 11/14/2017. The weakness was disclosed 11/14/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at support.blackberry.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-9369 since 06/02/2017. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. A simple authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 12/06/2019). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Operating System

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• BlackBerry

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• QNX Software Development Platform

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• 6.0
• 6.1
• 6.2
• 6.3
• 6.4
• 6.5
• 6.5.0 SP1
• 6.6

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• commercial

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