Improper Privilege Management The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package net-snmp  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-NETSNMP-597443
  • published30 Jul 2020
  • disclosed20 Aug 2020

Introduced: 30 Jul 2020

CVE-2020-15862  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream net-snmp package and not the net-snmp package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.