Upstream information

CVE-2020-15396 at MITRE

Description

In HylaFAX+ through 7.0.2 and HylaFAX Enterprise, the faxsetup utility calls chown on files in user-owned directories. By winning a race, a local attacker could use this to escalate his privileges to root.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.2
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

CVSS v3 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.8
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector	Local
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	Low
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1173521 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

openSUSE-SU-2020:1209-1, published Thu Dec 7 12:55:40 2023
openSUSE-SU-2020:1210-1, published Thu Dec 7 12:55:40 2023
openSUSE-SU-2020:1231-1, published Thu Dec 7 12:55:40 2023
openSUSE-SU-2020:1438-1, published Thu Dec 7 12:55:40 2023

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP1	`hylafax+ >= 7.0.3-bp151.6.4.1` `hylafax+-client >= 7.0.3-bp151.6.4.1` `libfaxutil7_0_3 >= 7.0.3-bp151.6.4.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2020-1231
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP2	`hylafax+ >= 7.0.3-bp152.3.4.1` `hylafax+-client >= 7.0.3-bp152.3.4.1` `libfaxutil7_0_3 >= 7.0.3-bp152.3.4.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2020-1438
openSUSE Leap 15.1	`hylafax+ >= 7.0.3-lp151.4.6.1` `hylafax+-client >= 7.0.3-lp151.4.6.1` `libfaxutil7_0_3 >= 7.0.3-lp151.4.6.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2020-1210
openSUSE Leap 15.2	`hylafax+ >= 7.0.3-lp152.3.6.1` `hylafax+-client >= 7.0.3-lp152.3.6.1` `libfaxutil7_0_3 >= 7.0.3-lp152.3.6.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2020-1209
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`hylafax+ >= 7.0.3-5.1` `hylafax+-client >= 7.0.3-5.1` `libfaxutil7_0_3 >= 7.0.3-5.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-10852

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jun 30 12:05:19 2020
CVE page last modified: Sun Jun 16 01:08:05 2024