Improper Privilege Management Affecting hylafaxplus package, versions <7.0.0-r4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE310-HYLAFAXPLUS-595833
  • published29 Jul 2020
  • disclosed30 Jun 2020

Introduced: 30 Jun 2020

CVE-2020-15396  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.10 hylafaxplus to version 7.0.0-r4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream hylafaxplus package and not the hylafaxplus package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

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