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CVE-2020-12050

high

Description

SQLiteODBC 0.9996, as packaged for certain Linux distributions as 0.9996-4, has a race condition leading to root privilege escalation because any user can replace a /tmp/sqliteodbc$$ file with new contents that cause loading of an arbitrary library.

References

https://sysdream.com/news/lab/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WXPHBDVB3LAQUQJCZ4WIS3JWM7JFR56X/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PR6B33IGBADGYDBTEEU36OGERER2HOGQ/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PDS5RK7F47BRXHUYRWGMGLYU2GJEVZQA/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1825762

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00026.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00013.html

https://sysdream.com/news/lab/2020-05-25-cve-2020-12050-fedora-red-hat-centos-local-privilege-escalation-through-a-race-condition-in-the-sqliteodbc-installer-script/

http://www.ch-werner.de/sqliteodbc/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-04-30

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00056