CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-13776

6.7 MEDIUM Published 2020-06-03 Modified 2026-10-14 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2020-06-03
Last modified: 2026-10-14
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected]): 6.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0): 6.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 6.2 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses: CWE-269

Description

systemd through v245 mishandles numerical usernames such as ones composed of decimal digits or 0x followed by hex digits, as demonstrated by use of root privileges when privileges of the 0x0 user account were intended. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-1000082.

Affected configurations

• systemd project systemd (<= 245) • netapp active iq unified manager • netapp solidfire \& hci management node • fedoraproject fedora 32

Weakness · CWE (1)

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

CWE-1389 Incorrect Parsing of Numbers with Different Radices weakness

References