Vulnerability CVE-2020-15861
Published: 2020-08-20

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

Type:

CWE-59

 (Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following'))

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.2/10
10/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Net-snmp -> Net-snmp 

 References:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=966599
https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/commit/4fd9a450444a434a993bc72f7c3486ccce41f602
https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/issues/145
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-12
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