PT-2020-14408
CVE-2020-15396
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Published
2020-06-30
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Updated
2026-10-31
Description by
CVSS 3.1
7.8
HighMetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
HylaFAX+ versions prior to 7.0.3
HylaFAX Enterprise (affected versions not specified)
Description
The issue allows a local attacker to potentially escalate privileges to root by exploiting a race condition in the faxsetup utility, which uses chown on files in user-owned directories.
Recommendations
For HylaFAX+ versions prior to 7.0.3, update to version 7.0.3 or later to resolve the issue.
For HylaFAX Enterprise, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Exploitability
Exploit
Impacts
Vendors
Affected products
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