CVE-2020-8793

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-8793
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-02-25 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:26:00 UTC
DescriptionOpenSMTPD before 6.6.4 allows local users to read arbitrary files (e.g., on some Linux distributions) because of a combination of an untrusted search path in makemap.c and race conditions in the offline functionality in smtpd.c.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-426 | CWE-367

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.10 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Application Opensmtpd Opensmtpd All All All All
Application Opensmtpd Opensmtpd All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-4294-1: OpenSMTPD vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
oss-security - Local information disclosure in OpenSMTPD (CVE-2020-8793) MLIST www.openwall.com Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: opensmtpd-6.6.4p1-2.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: opensmtpd-6.6.4p1-2.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Full Disclosure: Local information disclosure in OpenSMTPD (CVE-2020-8793) FULLDISC seclists.org
OpenBSD Security MISC www.openbsd.org 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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