A vulnerability has been found in net-snmp up to 5.7.3 (Network Management Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function of the component Privilege Management. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Net-SNMP through 5.7.3 has Improper Privilege Management because SNMP WRITE access to the EXTEND MIB provides the ability to run arbitrary commands as root.

The weakness was shared 08/20/2020 (GitHub Repository). The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2020-15862 since 07/20/2020. The exploitation appears to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/20/2020). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The entry 160068 is related to this item.

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• Network Management Software

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• net-snmp

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• 5.7.0
• 5.7.1
• 5.7.2
• 5.7.3

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• open-source

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