CVE-2020-15861

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-15861
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-15861.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-15861
Downstream
Published
2020-08-20T01:17:13.837Z
Modified
2026-07-08T05:55:45.953639465Z
Severity
  • 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

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

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:-:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "12.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "12.04"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "14.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "14.04"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "16.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "16.04"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "18.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "18.04"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "20.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "20.04"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
ac272772ea11a9f5d07ecaec881859f393f850bb
Fixed
4fd9a450444a434a993bc72f7c3486ccce41f602
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:net-snmp:net-snmp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "5.7.3"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Affected versions

v3.*
v3.0
v3.0.1
v3.0.2
v3.0.2.1
v3.0.3
v3.0.4
v3.0.5
v3.0.6
v3.0.7
v3.0.7.1
v3.0.7.2
v3.1
v3.1.0.1
v3.1.1
v3.1.2
v3.1.2.1
v3.1.3
v3.2
v3.3
v3.4
v3.5
v3.6
v3.6.1
v4.*
v4.0
v4.0.1
v4.1
v4.1.1
v4.2
v5.*
v5.0
v5.0.1
v5.0.11.1
v5.0.2
v5.0.3
v5.0.4
v5.0.5
v5.0.6
v5.0.7
v5.1
v5.1.4.1
v5.2
v5.3
v5.4
v5.5
v5.5.pre1
v5.5.pre2
v5.5.pre3
v5.5.rc1
v5.5.rc2
v5.5.rc3
v5.6
v5.6.pre1
v5.6.pre2
v5.6.pre3
v5.6.rc1
v5.6.rc2
v5.6.rc3
v5.7
v5.7.1
v5.7.1.pre1
v5.7.1.pre2
v5.7.1.rc1
v5.7.1.rc2
v5.7.1.rc3
v5.7.2.pre1
v5.7.2.pre2
v5.7.2.pre3
v5.7.2.rc1
v5.7.2.rc2
v5.7.2.rc3
v5.7.3
v5.7.3.pre1
v5.7.3.pre2
v5.7.3.pre3
v5.7.3.pre5
v5.7.3.rc1
v5.7.3.rc2
v5.7.3.rc3
v5.7.pre1
v5.7.pre2
v5.7.rc1
v5.7.rc2
v5.7.rc3
v5.8
v5.8.pre1
v5.8.pre2
v5.8.pre3
v5.8.rc1
v5.8.rc2
v5.8.rc3
v5.8.rc4

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-15861.json"