CVE-2020-8290

Summary

CVECVE-2020-8290
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-12-27 02:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-12-31 19:25:00 UTC
DescriptionBackblaze for Windows and Backblaze for macOS before 7.0.0.439 suffer from improper privilege management in `bztransmit` helper due to lack of permission handling and validation before creation of client update directories allowing for local escalation of privilege via rogue client update binary.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-269

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Backblaze Backblaze All All All All
Application Backblaze Backblaze All All All All
Application Backblaze Backblaze All All All All
Application Backblaze Backblaze All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
HackerOne MISC hackerone.com Permissions Required
CVE-2020-8290 – Elevation of Privilege in Backblaze - YouTube MISC youtu.be Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVE-2020-8290/README.md at master · geffner/CVE-2020-8290 · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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