CVE-2020-15862

Publication date 6 August 2020

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
net-snmp	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 5.8+dfsg-2ubuntu2.3
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 5.7.3+dfsg-1.8ubuntu3.6
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 5.7.3+dfsg-1ubuntu4.6
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 5.7.2~dfsg-8.1ubuntu3.3+esm2 Ubuntu Pro

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Notes

seth-arnold

see Debian's triage notes

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
net-snmp	Upstream: 77f6c60

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H