CVE-2020-8015
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-04-02 07:55
Modified
2024-09-16 19:46
Severity ?
8.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the packaging of exim in openSUSE Factory allows local attackers to escalate from user mail to root. This issue affects: openSUSE Factory exim versions prior to 4.93.0.4-3.1.
References
meissner@suse.dehttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00010.html
meissner@suse.dehttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1154183Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00010.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1154183Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
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