CVE-2020-10699

HIGH

Linux <2.1.51 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A flaw was found in Linux, in targetcli-fb versions 2.1.50 and 2.1.51 where the socket used by targetclid was world-writable. If a system enables the targetclid socket, a local attacker can use this flaw to modify the iSCSI configuration and escalate their privileges to root.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-22
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10699

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 33.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-732
Status published
Products (2)
targetcli-fb_project/targetcli-fb 2.1.50
targetcli-fb_project/targetcli-fb 2.1.51
Published Apr 15, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026