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CVE-2020-14156

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-06-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-276

Description

user_channel/passwd_mgr.cpp in OpenBMC phosphor-host-ipmid before 2020-04-03 does not ensure that /etc/ipmi-pass has strong file permissions.

Affected products

• OpenBMC Project OpenBMC: before 2020-04-03 — fixed in 2020-04-03

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: OpenBMC Project OpenBMC 2020-04-03. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/issues/3670
• https://github.com/openbmc/phosphor-host-ipmid/commit/b265455a2518ece7c004b43c144199ec980fc620
• https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/openbmc/2020-June/022020.html
• https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/issues/3670
• https://github.com/openbmc/phosphor-host-ipmid/commit/b265455a2518ece7c004b43c144199ec980fc620
• https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/openbmc/2020-June/022020.html

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