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CVE-2020-15862

medium

Description

Net-SNMP through 5.8 has Improper Privilege Management because SNMP WRITE access to the EXTEND MIB provides the ability to run arbitrary commands as root.

References

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

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

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

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-15862

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/net-snmp/-/commit/fad8725402752746daf0a751dcff19eb6aeab52e

https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/commit/77f6c60f57dba0aaea5d8ef1dd94bcd0c8e6d205

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=965166

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-08-20

Updated: 2023-11-22

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