CVE-2020-8015

Published: 2 April 2020

A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the packaging of exim in openSUSE Factory allows local attackers to escalate from user mail to root. This issue affects: openSUSE Factory exim versions prior to 4.93.0.4-3.1.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
exim4 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Not vulnerable (opensuse packaging)
	eoan	Not vulnerable (opensuse packaging)
	trusty	Not vulnerable (opensuse packaging)
	upstream	Not vulnerable (opensuse packaging)
	xenial	Not vulnerable (opensuse packaging)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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