CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-15396
High (7.8). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In HylaFAX+ through 7.0.2 and HylaFAX Enterprise, the faxsetup utility calls chown on files in user-owned directories. By winning a race, a local attacker could use this to escalate his privileges to root.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 32% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-362
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- fedoraproject:fedora
- hylafax\+_project:hylafax\+
- ifax:hylafax_enterprise
- opensuse:backports_sle
- opensuse:leap
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00039.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00040.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00046.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00054.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173521