What is CVE-2020-28046?

CVE-2020-28046 is a high-severity vulnerability in Pax Prolinos, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2020-11-02.

How severe is CVE-2020-28046?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Privilege escalation in Pax Prolinos

CVE-2020-28046

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.

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

EPSS: 0.005 (40.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Pax Prolinos
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-28046?: CVE-2020-28046 is a high-severity vulnerability in Pax Prolinos, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2020-11-02.
How severe is CVE-2020-28046?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.