CVE-2020-8290

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Dec 27, 2020
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Jan 28, 2020

Description

Backblaze for Windows and Backblaze for macOS before 7.0.0.439 suffer from improper privilege management in `bztransmit` helper due to lack of permission handling and validation before creation of client update directories allowing for local escalation of privilege via rogue client update binary.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management (CWE-269)

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Backblazen/a	Prior to 7.0.0.439Affected

References

https://hackerone.com/reports/818857
https://youtu.be/OpC6neWd2aM
https://github.com/geffner/CVE-2020-8290/blob/master/README.md

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