CVE-2020-8015

Local privilege escalation in exim package from user mail to root

State: Published
Severity: 8.4 High
Published: Apr 2, 2020
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Jan 27, 2020

Description

A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the packaging of exim in openSUSE Factory allows local attackers to escalate from user mail to root. This issue affects: openSUSE Factory exim versions prior to 4.93.0.4-3.1.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.4 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	suse

Weaknesses

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

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FactoryopenSUSE	exim to before 4.93.0.4-3.1Affected

References

openSUSE-SU-2020:0491vendor-advisory
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1154183

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