CVE-2020-15862 (GCVE-0-2020-15862)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-08-19 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 13:30
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Summary
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
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2020-07-23 00:00
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