CVE-2020-11081

8.2 highEPSS 0.6%

High (8.2) in linuxfoundation osquery. EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

osquery before version 4.4.0 enables a privilege escalation vulnerability. If a Window system is configured with a PATH that contains a user-writable directory then a local user may write a zlib1.dll DLL, which osquery will attempt to load. Since osquery runs with elevated privileges this enables local escalation. This is fixed in version 4.4.0.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

8.2 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 48% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs: CWE-426, CWE-114
Published: 2020-07-10
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

linuxfoundation:osquery

References

https://github.com/osquery/osquery/commit/4d4957f12a6aa0becc9d01d9f97061e1e3d809c5
https://github.com/osquery/osquery/issues/6426
https://github.com/osquery/osquery/pull/6433
https://github.com/osquery/osquery/releases/tag/4.4.0
https://github.com/osquery/osquery/security/advisories/GHSA-2xwp-8fv7-c5pm

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