CVE-2020-15396

HIGH

HylaFAX+ <7.0.2 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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_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