CVE-2020-15861

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Net-SNMP through 5.7.3 allows Escalation of Privileges because of UNIX symbolic link (symlink) following.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-59

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=966599Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/commit/4fd9a450444a434a993bc72f7c3486ccce41f602Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/issues/145Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-12Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200904-0001/Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4471-1/Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=966599Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/commit/4fd9a450444a434a993bc72f7c3486ccce41f602Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/issues/145Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-12Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200904-0001/Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4471-1/Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Aug 20, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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