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CVE-2020-28046 (GCVE-0-2020-28046)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-11-01 17:39 – Updated: 2024-08-04 16:33
VLAI
Summary
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
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
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://git.lsd.cat/g/pax-pwn x_refsource_MISC
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