The vulnerability of the Global Protect Agent for Linux’s endpoint protection software lies in its insecure handling of privileges. This allows attackers to elevate their privileges to the root level.

The vulnerability of the Global Protect Agent for Linux endpoint protection software lies in the insecure management of privileges. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to elevate their privileges to the root level...

kernel: lockdown: bypass through ACPI write via efivar_ssdt

A flaw was found in how the ACPI table loading through the EFI variable and the related efivarssdt boot option was handled when the Linux kernel was locked down. This flaw allows a root privileged local user to circumvent the kernel lockdown restrictions. The highest threat from this vulnerabilit...

CVE-2020-15426

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of CentOS Web Panel cwp-e17.0.9.8.923. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within ajaxmigrationcpanel.php. When parsing the serverip parameter, the...

Cisco Small Business RV Series Arbitrary Code Execution (cisco-sa-code-exec-wH3BNFb)

According to its self-reported version, Cisco Small Business RV Series Router Firmware is affected by an arbitrary code execution vulnerability due to improper input validation. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this, via maliciously crafted requests, to execute arbitrary code with...

GLSA-202007-25 : arpwatch: Root privilege escalation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202007-25 arpwatch: Root privilege escalation It was discovered that Gentoos arpwatch ebuild made excessive permission operations on its data directories, possibly changing ownership of unintended files. This only affects OpenRC...

Icinga: Root privilege escalation

Background Icinga is an open source computer system and network monitoring application. It was originally created as a fork of the Nagios system monitoring application in 2009. Description It was discovered that Icinga’s installed files have insecure permissions, possibly allowing root privilege...

GLSA-202007-31 : Icinga: Root privilege escalation

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202007-31 Icinga: Root privilege escalation It was discovered that Icingas installed files have insecure permissions, possibly allowing root privilege escalation. Impact : A local attacker could escalate privileges to root...

CVE-2020-3380

CVE-2020-3380 concerns Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM). The issue is a privilege-escalation in the DCNM CLI: an authenticated, local attacker could exploit insufficient restrictions on an affected CLI command to elevate to root and execute arbitrary OS commands. The path described involv...

(0Day) CentOS Web Panel ajax_ftp_manager Command Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of CentOS Web Panel. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within ajaxftpmanager.php. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of a...

Kubernetes: Man in the middle leading to root privilege escalation using hostNetwork=true (CAP_NET_RAW considered harmful)

Summary: CAPNETRAW capability is still included by default in K8S, leading to yet another attack. An attacker gaining access to a hostNetwork=true container with CAPNETRAW capability can listen to all the traffic going through the host and inject arbitrary traffic, allowing to tamper with most...

CVE-2020-13776

systemd through v245 mishandles numerical usernames such as ones composed of decimal digits or 0x followed by hex digits, as demonstrated by use of root privileges when privileges of the 0x0 user account were intended. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-1000082...

CVE-2020-13776

systemd through v245 mishandles numerical usernames such as ones composed of decimal digits or 0x followed by hex digits, as demonstrated by use of root privileges when privileges of the 0x0 user account were intended. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-1000082...

Open-Xchange: Directory traversal allows execution of arbitrary binaries usign doveadm exec

Both the doveadm-exec man page and the online manual specify that it can be used to execute commands from Dovecot's libexecdir which sounds like an implicit security boundary. I recently ran across a situation where doveadm-exec was whitelisted in sudoers to be run as root. I realized it was...

CVE-2020-3812

CVE-2020-3812 : In netqmail 1.06 (qmail-verify), a local attacker can determine existence of files/directories anywhere in the filesystem because qmail-verify runs as root and does not drop privileges before testing; this enables information disclosure. Debian/DLA-2234 fixes the issues in netqmai...

Security Bulletin: IBM Storwize V7000 Unified is affected by vulnerability in GPFS (CVE-2019-4558)

Summary IBM Storwize V7000 Unified is shipped with GPFS, for which a fix is available for a security vulnerability. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2019-4558 DESCRIPTION: A security vulnerability has been identified in all levels of IBM Spectrum Scale V5.0.0.0 through V5.0.3.2 and IBM Spectrum...

CVE-2020-2016

A race condition due to insecure creation of a file in a temporary directory vulnerability in PAN-OS allows for root privilege escalation from a limited linux user account. This allows an attacker who has escaped the restricted shell as a low privilege administrator, possibly by exploiting anothe...

Race condition

A race condition due to insecure creation of a file in a temporary directory vulnerability in PAN-OS allows for root privilege escalation from a limited linux user account. This allows an attacker who has escaped the restricted shell as a low privilege administrator, possibly by exploiting anothe...

CVE-2020-2016

CVE-2020-2016 is a local privilege-escalation issue in PAN-OS caused by a race condition from insecure temporary-file creation. Affected: PAN-OS 7.1.x before 7.1.26; 8.0.x before 8.1.13; 8.1.x before 8.1.13; 9.0.x before 9.0.6; all PAN-OS 8.0. The underlying vulnerability enables escalation from ...

CVE-2020-2016 PAN-OS: Temporary file race condition vulnerability in PAN-OS leads to local privilege escalation

A race condition due to insecure creation of a file in a temporary directory vulnerability in PAN-OS allows for root privilege escalation from a limited linux user account. This allows an attacker who has escaped the restricted shell as a low privilege administrator, possibly by exploiting anothe...

PAN-OS: Temporary file race condition vulnerability in PAN-OS leads to local privilege escalation

A race condition due to insecure creation of a file in a temporary directory vulnerability in PAN-OS allows for root privilege escalation from a limited linux user account. This allows an attacker who has escaped the restricted shell as a low privilege administrator, possibly by exploiting anothe...