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CVE-2020-15861

HIGH

7.8

Description

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

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score7.8

SeverityHIGH

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredLOW

User InteractionNONE

Published8/20/2020

Last Modified12/3/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

canonical:ubuntu_linuxnet-snmp:net-snmpnetapp:cloud_backupnetapp:smi-s_providernetapp:solidfire_\&_hci_management_node

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-59CWE-59

References

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=966599(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/commit/4fd9a450444a434a993bc72f7c3486ccce41f602(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/issues/145(cve@mitre.org)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-12(cve@mitre.org)

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200904-0001/(cve@mitre.org)

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4471-1/(cve@mitre.org)

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=966599(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/commit/4fd9a450444a434a993bc72f7c3486ccce41f602(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/issues/145(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-12(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200904-0001/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4471-1/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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