CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-15396
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-06-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• hylafax\+ project hylafax\+ (<= 7.0.2)
• ifax hylafax enterprise
• fedoraproject fedora 31
• fedoraproject fedora 32
• opensuse backports sle 15.0
• opensuse leap 15.1
• opensuse leap 15.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00039.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00040.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00046.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00054.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173521 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J52QFVREJWJ35YSEEDDRMZQ2LM2H2WE6/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y46FOVJUS5SO44A2VEKR7DXEHTI4WK5L/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-06 Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceforge.net/p/hylafax/HylaFAX+/2534/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00039.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00040.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00046.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00054.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173521 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J52QFVREJWJ35YSEEDDRMZQ2LM2H2WE6/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y46FOVJUS5SO44A2VEKR7DXEHTI4WK5L/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-06 Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceforge.net/p/hylafax/HylaFAX+/2534/ Patch, Third Party Advisory