Description
Net-SNMP through 5.8 has Improper Privilege Management because SNMP WRITE access to the EXTEND MIB provides the ability to run arbitrary commands as root.
References (7)
Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-12
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4471-1/
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=965166
Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/commit/77f6c60f57dba0aaea5d8ef1dd94bcd0c8e6d205
Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/net-snmp/-/commit/fad8725402752746daf0a751dcff19eb6aeab52e
Third Party Advisory
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-15862
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200904-0001/
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0012
EPSS Percentile
30.1%
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-269
Status
published
Products (10)
canonical/ubuntu_linux
12.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
20.04
net-snmp/net-snmp
< 5.8.1
netapp/cloud_backup
netapp/hci_management_node
netapp/smi-s_provider
netapp/solidfire
Published
Aug 20, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026