CVE-2020-15396

PoC —

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

EPSS

<1%p32

Published

Jun 30, 2020 (Jun 30, 2020)

Modified

Jun 17, 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.

Vendors: hylafax\+ project ifax fedoraproject opensuse
Products: hylafax\+, hylafax enterprise, fedora, backports sle, leap
Weakness: CWE-362
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.4%)

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