Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Jul 10, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-11081
CVE-2020-11081
Description
osquery before version 4.4.0 enables a privilege escalation vulnerability. If a Window system is configured with a PATH that contains a user-writable directory then a local user may write a zlib1.dll DLL, which osquery will attempt to load. Since osquery runs with elevated privileges this enables local escalation. This is fixed in version 4.4.0.
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References
5- github.com/osquery/osquery/commit/4d4957f12a6aa0becc9d01d9f97061e1e3d809c5nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- github.com/osquery/osquery/pull/6433nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- github.com/osquery/osquery/issues/6426nvdExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- github.com/osquery/osquery/releases/tag/4.4.0nvdRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
- github.com/osquery/osquery/security/advisories/GHSA-2xwp-8fv7-c5pmnvdThird Party Advisory
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