CVE-2020-15861

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Aug 19, 2020
Updated: Dec 3, 2025
Reserved: Jul 20, 2020

Description

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

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=966599
https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/commit/4fd9a450444a434a993bc72f7c3486ccce41f602
https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/issues/145
GLSA-202008-12vendor-advisory
USN-4471-1vendor-advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200904-0001/

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