CVE-2020-15862

moderate-risk

Published 2020-08-20

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.

Do I need to act?

0.12% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 7.8/10 High

LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (10)

Net-Snmp

Ubuntu Linux

Cloud Backup

Hci Management Node

Smi-S Provider

Solidfire

Affected Vendors

Net-Snmp Canonical Netapp

References (14)

Issue Tracking https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=965166

Patch https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/commit/77f6c60f57dba0aaea5d8ef1dd94bcd0c8e6...

Patch https://salsa.debian.org/debian/net-snmp/-/commit/fad8725402752746daf0a751dcff19...

Third Party Advisory https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-15862

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-12

Third Party Advisory https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200904-0001/

Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/4471-1/

Issue Tracking https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=965166

Patch https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/commit/77f6c60f57dba0aaea5d8ef1dd94bcd0c8e6...

Patch https://salsa.debian.org/debian/net-snmp/-/commit/fad8725402752746daf0a751dcff19...

Third Party Advisory https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-15862

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-12

Third Party Advisory https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200904-0001/

Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/4471-1/

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moderate-risk

Severity 24/34 · High

Exploitability 1/34 · Minimal

Exposure 16/34 · Moderate