CVE-2020-28046

PoC —

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

EPSS

<1%p42

Published

Nov 2, 2020 (Nov 2, 2020)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in ProlinOS through 2.4.161.8859R. An attacker with local code execution privileges as a normal user (MAINAPP) can escalate to root privileges by exploiting the setuid installation of the xtables-multi binary and leveraging the ip6tables --modprobe switch.

Vendors: pax
Products: prolinos
Weakness: CWE-269
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 (0.5%)

In the news0 stories

No ingested article mentions this CVE yet.