Privilege Escalation Affecting ifax/hylafax package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-IFAXHYLAFAX-2440412
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed30 Jun 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Jun 2020

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

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for ifax/hylafax.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. 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.

References

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