CVE-2020-13696 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting LinuxTV xawtv before version 3.107, as well as various Linux distributions including Canonical, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE. It allows a local, unprivileged attacker to test for the existence of arbitrary files and trigger read/write open operations on them through the setuid-root v4l-conf program. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.4, indicating a low attack complexity and impact limited to confidentiality and integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 3.107CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:linuxtv:xawtv:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
15.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:opensuse:backports_sle:15.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
31CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
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