CVE-2020-15396
HIGH7.8EPSS 0.04%Published: 6/30/2020Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
In HylaFAX+ through 7.0.2 and HylaFAX Enterprise, the faxsetup utility calls chown on files in user-owned directories. By winning a race, a local attacker could use this to escalate his privileges to root.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/hylafaxplusfrom 0, < 7.0.0-r4
- Debian/hylafaxfrom 0, < 3:6.0.7-3.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |