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CVE-2020-10699

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-10699 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in targetcli-fb versions 2.1.50 and 2.1.51, where a world-writable socket allows local attackers to alter iSCSI configurations. This flaw carries a high CVSSv3 score of 7.8, indicating a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Despite its severity, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.1.50CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:targetcli-fb_project:targetcli-fb:2.1.50:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.51CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:targetcli-fb_project:targetcli-fb:2.1.51:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
27.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0035 is in the 66th percentile among its peer group of 17,061 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: targetcli-0:2.1.51-4.el8_2
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-10699Important

targetcli: world writable /var/run/targetclid.sock allows unprivileged user to execute commands

Mar 23, 2020

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / open-iscsi/targetcli-fb/issues/162
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202008-22
Third Party Advisory