CVE-2020-15862

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-15862
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-15862.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-15862
Downstream
Related
Published
2020-08-20T01:17:13.897Z
Modified
2026-03-19T12:40:19.019271Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

Git / github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
ee7ef662f83ef70b38ea112ca33ec5a3f7a4aa43
Fixed
77f6c60f57dba0aaea5d8ef1dd94bcd0c8e6d205
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "5.8.1"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v3.*
v3.0
v3.0.1
v3.0.2
v3.0.2.1
v3.0.3
v3.0.4
v3.0.5
v3.0.6
v3.0.7
v3.0.7.1
v3.0.7.2
v3.1
v3.1.0.1
v3.1.1
v3.1.2
v3.1.2.1
v3.1.3
v3.2
v3.3
v3.4
v3.5
v3.6
v3.6.1
v4.*
v4.0
v4.0.1
v4.1
v4.1.1
v4.2
v5.*
v5.0
v5.0.1
v5.0.10
v5.0.10.2
v5.0.11
v5.0.11.1
v5.0.2
v5.0.3
v5.0.4
v5.0.5
v5.0.6
v5.0.7
v5.0.8
v5.0.9
v5.1
v5.1.1
v5.1.2
v5.1.3
v5.1.4
v5.1.4.1
v5.2
v5.2.1
v5.2.2
v5.2.3
v5.2.4
v5.2.4.pre1
v5.2.4.pre2
v5.2.4.pre3
v5.2.4.rc1
v5.2.4.rc2
v5.2.5
v5.2.5.pre1
v5.2.5.pre2
v5.2.5.rc1
v5.2.5.rc2
v5.2.6
v5.2.6.pre1
v5.2.6.pre2
v5.2.6.rc1
v5.2.6.rc2
v5.2.6.rc3
v5.3
v5.3.1
v5.3.2
v5.3.2.pre1
v5.3.2.rc1
v5.3.3
v5.3.3.pre1
v5.3.3.rc1
v5.3.3.rc2
v5.3.4
v5.3.4.pre1
v5.3.4.pre2
v5.3.4.rc1
v5.4
v5.4.1
v5.4.1.pre1
v5.4.1.pre2
v5.4.1.pre3
v5.4.1.rc1
v5.4.1.rc2
v5.4.1.rc3
v5.4.1.rc4
v5.4.2
v5.4.2.pre1
v5.4.2.pre2
v5.4.2.rc1
v5.4.2.rc2
v5.4.2.rc3
v5.4.3
v5.4.3.pre1
v5.4.3.pre2
v5.4.3.rc1
v5.4.3.rc2
v5.4.3.rc3
v5.4.4
v5.4.4.pre1
v5.4.4.pre2
v5.4.4.rc1
v5.4.5.pre1
v5.4.5.pre2
v5.5
v5.5.1
v5.5.1.rc2
v5.5.2
v5.5.2.pre1
v5.5.2.rc1
v5.5.2.rc2
v5.5.2.rc3
v5.5.pre1
v5.5.pre2
v5.5.pre3
v5.5.rc1
v5.5.rc2
v5.5.rc3
v5.6
v5.6.1
v5.6.1.pre1
v5.6.1.pre2
v5.6.1.rc1
v5.6.1.rc2
v5.6.2
v5.6.2.pre1
v5.6.2.pre2
v5.6.2.rc1
v5.6.2.rc2
v5.6.2.rc3
v5.6.pre1
v5.6.pre2
v5.6.pre3
v5.6.rc1
v5.6.rc2
v5.6.rc3
v5.7
v5.7.1
v5.7.1.pre1
v5.7.1.pre2
v5.7.1.rc1
v5.7.1.rc2
v5.7.1.rc3
v5.7.2
v5.7.2.pre1
v5.7.2.pre2
v5.7.2.pre3
v5.7.2.rc1
v5.7.2.rc2
v5.7.2.rc3
v5.7.3
v5.7.3.pre1
v5.7.3.pre2
v5.7.3.pre3
v5.7.3.pre4
v5.7.3.pre5
v5.7.3.rc1
v5.7.3.rc2
v5.7.3.rc3
v5.7.pre1
v5.7.pre2
v5.7.rc1
v5.7.rc2
v5.7.rc3

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "12.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "14.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "16.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "18.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "20.04"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-15862.json"
vanir_signatures 
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        "target": {
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