CVE-2020-15708

7.8 highEPSS 0.4%

High (7.8) in canonical ubuntu linux. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Ubuntu's packaging of libvirt in 20.04 LTS created a control socket with world read and write permissions. An attacker could use this to overwrite arbitrary files or execute arbitrary code.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

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

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 34% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-732
Published: 2020-11-06
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

canonical:ubuntu_linux

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4452-1
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-4452-1

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