CVE-2020-15396

high

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

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https://sourceforge.net/p/hylafax/HylaFAX+/2534/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-06

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y46FOVJUS5SO44A2VEKR7DXEHTI4WK5L/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J52QFVREJWJ35YSEEDDRMZQ2LM2H2WE6/

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00054.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00046.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00040.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00039.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173521

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-06-30

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

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