MGASA-2020-0356: hylafax+ Mageia

CVSS: UnknownPublished
Published 31-08-2020Last modified 16-04-2026
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Vulnerability summary

MGASA-2020-0356 is a vulnerability in hylafax+ Mageia with no CVSS score yet.

Overall risk
0/100
0100
Minimal · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
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010
No CVSS score recorded
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KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 2 · Downstream 0
CVE-2020-15396CVE-2020-15397

Timeline

  1. 31-08-2020
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 16-04-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Updated hylafax+ packages fix security vulnerabilities In HylaFAX+ through 7.0.2, the faxsetup utility calls chown on files in user-owned directories. By winning a race, a local attacker could use this to escalate his privileges to root (CVE-2020-15396). HylaFAX+ through 7.0.2 has scripts that execute binaries from directories writable by unprivileged users (e.g., locations under /var/spool/hylafax that are writable by the uucp account). This allows these users to execute code in the context of the user calling these binaries (often root) (CVE-2020-15397). The hylafax+ package has been updated to version 7.0.3, fixing thesee issues and several other bugs.

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Public exploits

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Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

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Affected systems

Mageia1 product
  • hylafax+< +-7.0.3-1.mga7

1 vendor · 1 product

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