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DEBIAN-CVE-2020-15862

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 r...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 net-snmp

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.8+dfsg-4"}]}]

Debian:13 net-snmp

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.8+dfsg-4"}]}]

Debian:14 net-snmp

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.8+dfsg-4"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org