CVE-2020-8019 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting syslog-ng in various SUSE and openSUSE Linux distributions. This UNIX symbolic link following flaw allows a local attacker, specifically one controlling the 'news' user, to escalate their privileges to root. With a CVSS v3.1 score of 7.8 (High), the vulnerability has low attack complexity and requires low privileges, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.0.9-27.34.40.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oneidentity:syslog-ng:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 3.6.4-12.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oneidentity:syslog-ng:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 3.19.1-bp151.4.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oneidentity:syslog-ng:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 3.19.1-lp151.3.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oneidentity:syslog-ng:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.