CVE-2020-15396
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15396
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-15396.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-15396
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2020-06-30T12:15:12Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T19:01:26Z
- Severity
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- 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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In HylaFAX+ through 7.0.2 and HylaFAX Enterprise, the faxsetup utility calls chown on files in user-owned directories. By winning a race, a local attacker could use this to escalate his privileges to root.
- References
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- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00039.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00040.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00046.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00054.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173521
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-06
- https://sourceforge.net/p/hylafax/HylaFAX+/2534/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J52QFVREJWJ35YSEEDDRMZQ2LM2H2WE6/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y46FOVJUS5SO44A2VEKR7DXEHTI4WK5L/