FKIE_CVE-2020-15862

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-08-20 01:17 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:57
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Net-SNMP through 5.8 has Improper Privilege Management because SNMP WRITE access to the EXTEND MIB provides the ability to run arbitrary commands as root.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=965166Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/commit/77f6c60f57dba0aaea5d8ef1dd94bcd0c8e6d205Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://salsa.debian.org/debian/net-snmp/-/commit/fad8725402752746daf0a751dcff19eb6aeab52ePatch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-15862Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-12Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200904-0001/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4471-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=965166Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/commit/77f6c60f57dba0aaea5d8ef1dd94bcd0c8e6d205Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://salsa.debian.org/debian/net-snmp/-/commit/fad8725402752746daf0a751dcff19eb6aeab52ePatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-15862Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-12Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200904-0001/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/4471-1/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
net-snmp net-snmp *
canonical ubuntu_linux 12.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 20.04
netapp cloud_backup -
netapp hci_management_node -
netapp smi-s_provider -
netapp solidfire -
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T02:57:18.757",
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