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CVE record · CVE-2020-8023

Local privilege escalation from ldap to root when using OPENLDAP_CONFIG_BACKEND=ldap in openldap2

CVSS 7.7 HighEPSS 0.0041 · 35th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: suse) at 1 Sept 2020, 11:25 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
SUSE SUSE Enterprise Storage 5
  • affected openldap2 to before 2.4.41-18.71.2 custom
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3
  • affected openldap2 to before 2.4.26-0.74.13.1, custom
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4
  • affected openldap2 to before 2.4.26-0.74.13.1, custom
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3
  • affected openldap2 to before 2.4.26-0.74.13.1, custom
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SECURITY
  • affected openldap2-client-openssl1 to before 2.4.26-0.74.13.1 custom
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSS
  • affected openldap2 to before 2.4.26-0.74.13.1, custom
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL
  • affected openldap2 to before 2.4.41-18.71.2 custom
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS
  • affected openldap2 to before 2.4.41-18.71.2 custom
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCL
  • affected openldap2 to before 2.4.41-18.71.2 custom
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-LTSS
  • affected openldap2 to before 2.4.41-18.71.2 custom
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4
  • affected openldap2 to before 2.4.41-18.71.2 custom
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5
  • affected openldap2 to before 2.4.41-18.71.2 custom
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS
  • affected openldap2 to before 2.4.46-9.31.1 custom
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2
  • affected openldap2 to before 2.4.41-18.71.2 custom
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3
  • affected openldap2 to before 2.4.41-18.71.2 custom
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15
  • affected openldap2 to before 2.4.46-9.31.1 custom
SUSE SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7
  • affected openldap2 to before 2.4.41-18.71.2 custom
SUSE SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8
  • affected openldap2 to before 2.4.41-18.71.2 custom
SUSE SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8
  • affected openldap2 to before 2.4.41-18.71.2 custom
openSUSE openSUSE Leap 15.1
  • affected openldap2 to before 2.4.46-lp151.10.12.1 custom
openSUSE openSUSE Leap 15.2
  • affected openldap2 to before 2.4.46-lp152.14.3.1 custom
Identifiers
CVE-2020-8023
CNA
suse
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-349
Tags
Published
1 Sept 2020
Updated
16 Sept 2024

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.7 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CNA (suse)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0041, the 35th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 1 Sept 2020. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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