Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 19, 2020· Updated Dec 3, 2025
CVE-2020-15861
CVE-2020-15861
Description
Net-SNMP through 5.7.3 allows Escalation of Privileges because of UNIX symbolic link (symlink) following.
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Affected products
2- Net-SNMP/Net-SNMPdescription
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
6- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-12mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
- usn.ubuntu.com/4471-1/mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
- bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgimitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
- github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/commit/4fd9a450444a434a993bc72f7c3486ccce41f602mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
- github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/issues/145mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200904-0001/mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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