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CVE-2020-15861

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-08-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

Net-SNMP through 5.7.3 allows Escalation of Privileges because of UNIX symbolic link (symlink) following.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 20.04
• net-snmp: through 5.7.3
• NetApp Cloud Backup: all versions
• NetApp Smi-S Provider: all versions
• NetApp Solidfire & Hci Management Node: all versions

References

• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=966599
• https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/commit/4fd9a450444a434a993bc72f7c3486ccce41f602
• https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/issues/145
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-12
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200904-0001/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4471-1/
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=966599
• https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/commit/4fd9a450444a434a993bc72f7c3486ccce41f602
• https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/issues/145
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-12
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200904-0001/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4471-1/

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