PT-2020-14408 · Hylafax+1 · Hylafax+2

Johannes Segitz · Published 2020-06-30 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2020-15396

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV: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.

Exploit

Race Condition

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-362

Related Identifiers

CVE-2020-15396

MGASA-2020-0356

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:1209-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:1210-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:1231-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:1438-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020_1209-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020_1210-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10852-1

Affected Products

Hylafax Enterprise

Hylafax

Suse

References · 38

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173521 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2020:1231-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-15396 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2020:1438-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2020-15396 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2020:1209-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-15396 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15396 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-15396 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2020:1210-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00054.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-15396 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00039.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-15396 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00040.html · Vendor Advisory