CVE-2020-12050

Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-04-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

SQLiteODBC 0.9996, as packaged for certain Linux distributions as 0.9996-4, has a race condition leading to root privilege escalation because any user can replace a /tmp/sqliteodbc$$ file with new contents that cause loading of an arbitrary library.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 30, 31, 32
openSUSE Backports Sle: 15.0-sp1
Sqliteodbc Project Sqliteodbc: 0.9996

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00013.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00026.html
http://www.ch-werner.de/sqliteodbc/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1825762
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PDS5RK7F47BRXHUYRWGMGLYU2GJEVZQA/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PR6B33IGBADGYDBTEEU36OGERER2HOGQ/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WXPHBDVB3LAQUQJCZ4WIS3JWM7JFR56X/
https://sysdream.com/news/lab/
https://sysdream.com/news/lab/2020-05-25-cve-2020-12050-fedora-red-hat-centos-local-privilege-escalation-through-a-race-condition-in-the-sqliteodbc-installer-script/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00013.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00026.html
http://www.ch-werner.de/sqliteodbc/

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