CVE-2020-15861 (GCVE-0-2020-15861)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-08-19 18:28 – Updated: 2025-12-03 18:23
VLAI?
Summary
Net-SNMP through 5.7.3 allows Escalation of Privileges because of UNIX symbolic link (symlink) following.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
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