CVE-2020-15861 – Net-SNMP through 5.7.3 allows Escalation of Privileges because of UNIX sy

Net-SNMP through 5.7.3 allows Escalation of Privileges because of UNIX symbolic link (symlink) following.

 

Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15861

Reference (s):

• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=966599
• https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/commit/4fd9a450444a434a993bc72f7c3486ccce41f602
• https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/issues/145
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200904-0001/
• GENTOO:GLSA-202008-12