CVE-2020-12050

Description

SQLiteODBC 0.9996, as packaged for certain Linux distributions as 0.9996-4, has a race condition leading to root privilege escalation because any user can replace a /tmp/sqliteodbc$$ file with new contents that cause loading of an arbitrary library.

References

https://sysdream.com/news/lab/2020-05-25-cve-2020-12050-fedora-red-hat-centos-local-privilege-escalation-through-a-race-condition-in-the-sqliteodbc-installer-script/

https://sysdream.com/news/lab/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WXPHBDVB3LAQUQJCZ4WIS3JWM7JFR56X/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PR6B33IGBADGYDBTEEU36OGERER2HOGQ/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PDS5RK7F47BRXHUYRWGMGLYU2GJEVZQA/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1825762

http://www.ch-werner.de/sqliteodbc/

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00026.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00013.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3