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CVE-2020-25031

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-08-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

checkinstall 1.6.2, when used to create a package that contains a symlink, may trigger the creation of a mode 0777 executable file.

Affected products

• Canonical Checkinstall: 1.6.2

References

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/checkinstall/+bug/1861281
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/checkinstall/+bug/1861281

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