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CVE-2020-15861

medium

Description

Net-SNMP through 5.7.3 allows Escalation of Privileges because of UNIX symbolic link (symlink) following.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4471-1/

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200904-0001/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-12

https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/issues/145

https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/commit/4fd9a450444a434a993bc72f7c3486ccce41f602

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=966599

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-08-20

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

CVSS v4

Base Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Medium