Description
In HylaFAX+ through 7.0.2 and HylaFAX Enterprise, the faxsetup utility calls chown on files in user-owned directories. By winning a race, a local attacker could use this to escalate his privileges to root.
References (9)
Core 9
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://sourceforge.net/p/hylafax/HylaFAX+/2534/
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173521
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-06
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y46FOVJUS5SO44A2VEKR7DXEHTI4WK5L/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J52QFVREJWJ35YSEEDDRMZQ2LM2H2WE6/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00039.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00040.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00046.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00054.html
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0007
EPSS Percentile
22.1%
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-362
Status
published
Products (7)
fedoraproject/fedora
31
fedoraproject/fedora
32
hylafax\+_project/hylafax\+
< 7.0.2
ifax/hylafax_enterprise
opensuse/backports_sle
15.0 sp1 (2 CPE variants)
opensuse/leap
15.1
opensuse/leap
15.2
Published
Jun 30, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026