CVE-2020-14976

medium

Description

GNS3 ubridge through 0.9.18 on macOS, as used in GNS3 server before 2.1.17, allows a local attacker to read arbitrary files because it handles configuration-file errors by printing the configuration file while executing in a setuid root context.

References

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https://github.com/GNS3/ubridge/commit/2eb0d1dab6a6de76cf3556130a2d52af101077db

https://github.com/GNS3/gns3-server/releases/tag/v2.1.17

https://www.gns3.com/

https://theevilbit.github.io/posts/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-06-23

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N