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CVE-2020-15862

Date: August 18, 2020

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.8

Related Resources (11)

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

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

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

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15862

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15862

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-15862

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

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

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

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

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2020-15862

Severity Score

7.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Privilege Management

CWE-269

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.8
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.2
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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