CVE-2020-15862

net-snmp: Improper Privilege Management in EXTEND MIB may lead to privileged commands execution

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

8.8

CVSS 3.1

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Published · August 25, 2020

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in Net-SNMP through version 5.73, where an Improper Privilege Management issue occurs due to SNMP WRITE access to the EXTEND MIB allows running arbitrary commands as root. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-250 · Execution with Unnecessary Privileges