CVE-2020-26277: Arbitrary read/write in DBdeployer

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-12-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

DBdeployer is a tool that deploys MySQL database servers easily. In DBdeployer before version 1.58.2, users unpacking a tarball may use a maliciously packaged tarball that contains symlinks to files external to the target. In such scenario, an attacker could induce dbdeployer to write into a system file, thus altering the computer defenses. For the attack to succeed, the following factors need to contribute: 1) The user is logged in as root. While dbdeployer is usable as root, it was designed to run as unprivileged user. 2) The user has taken a tarball from a non secure source, without testing the checksum. When the tarball is retrieved through dbdeployer, the checksum is compared before attempting to unpack. This has been fixed in version 1.58.2.

Affected products

datacharmer dbdeployer: before 1.58.2 — fixed in 1.58.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: datacharmer dbdeployer 1.58.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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