CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-28046

7.8 HIGH Published 2020-11-02 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-11-02
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

An issue was discovered in ProlinOS through 2.4.161.8859R. An attacker with local code execution privileges as a normal user (MAINAPP) can escalate to root privileges by exploiting the setuid installation of the xtables-multi binary and leveraging the ip6tables --modprobe switch.

Affected configurations

• pax prolinos (<= 2.4.161.8859r)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References