CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-15862
High (7.8). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 31% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-269
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- net-snmp:net-snmp
- netapp:cloud_backup
- netapp:hci_management_node
- netapp:smi-s_provider
- netapp:solidfire
References
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=965166
- https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/commit/77f6c60f57dba0aaea5d8ef1dd94bcd0c8e6d205
- https://salsa.debian.org/debian/net-snmp/-/commit/fad8725402752746daf0a751dcff19eb6aeab52e
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-15862
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-12