PT-2020-3581

CVE-2020-15861

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Published

2020-07-31

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Updated

2025-12-03

Description by

CVSS 3.1
7.8
High
MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Net-SNMP versions prior to 5.7.3
Description The issue allows for Escalation of Privileges due to the following of UNIX symbolic links (symlinks). This can potentially enable a remote attacker to access confidential data, compromise its integrity, and cause a denial of service.
Recommendations For versions prior to 5.7.3, update to version 5.7.3 or later to resolve the issue. At the moment, there is no information about additional mitigation measures for this vulnerability.
Exploitability
Fix
Impacts
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Related identifiers
DLA-2313-1
DSA-4746-1
USN-4471-1
USN-4471-2
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