A vulnerability was found in openSUSE Leap and Tumbleweed (affected version not known). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component inn Package. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a default permission vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-276. During installation, installed file permissions are set to allow anyone to modify those files. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A Incorrect Default Permissions vulnerability in the packaging of inn in openSUSE Leap 15.2, openSUSE Tumbleweed, openSUSE Leap 15.1 allows local attackers with control of the new user to escalate their privileges to root. This issue affects: openSUSE Leap 15.2 inn version 2.6.2-lp152.1.26 and prior versions. openSUSE Tumbleweed inn version 2.6.2-4.2 and prior versions. openSUSE Leap 15.1 inn version 2.5.4-lp151.3.3.1 and prior versions.

The weakness was released 08/07/2020 as Bug 1172573 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.suse.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2020-8026 since 01/27/2020. Attacking locally is a requirement. A simple authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1222 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

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