CVE-2020-28046

7.8 highEPSS 0.5%

High (7.8) in pax prolinos. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in ProlinOS through 2.4.161.8859R. An attacker with local code execution privileges as a normal user (MAINAPP) can escalate to root privileges by exploiting the setuid installation of the xtables-multi binary and leveraging the ip6tables --modprobe switch.

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: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 43% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-269
Published: 2020-11-02
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

pax:prolinos

References

https://git.lsd.cat/g/pax-pwn
https://git.lsd.cat/g/pax-pwn

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