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CVE-2020-15862 Details

Description

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.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:7.8 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=965166 CVEIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/commit/77f6c60f57dba0aaea5d8ef1dd94bcd0c8e6d205 CVEPatchThird Party Advisory
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/net-snmp/-/commit/fad8725402752746daf0a751dcff19eb6aeab52e CVEPatchThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-12 CVEThird Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200904-0001/ CVEThird Party Advisory

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-269Improper Privilege Management[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions

Change History

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QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2020-15862
NVD Published Date:
Aug 20, 2020
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2020-15862 Details - Not Deferred