CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-15862
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-08-20
- 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-269
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• net-snmp net-snmp (< 5.8.1)
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 20.04
• netapp cloud backup
• netapp hci management node
• netapp smi-s provider
• netapp solidfire
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=965166 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/commit/77f6c60f57dba0aaea5d8ef1dd94bcd0c8e6d205 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://salsa.debian.org/debian/net-snmp/-/commit/fad8725402752746daf0a751dcff19eb6aeab52e Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-15862 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-12 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200904-0001/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4471-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=965166 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/commit/77f6c60f57dba0aaea5d8ef1dd94bcd0c8e6d205 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://salsa.debian.org/debian/net-snmp/-/commit/fad8725402752746daf0a751dcff19eb6aeab52e Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-15862 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-12 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200904-0001/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4471-1/ Third Party Advisory