VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-28046

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.51%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-11-02
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

An issue was discovered in ProlinOS through 2.4.161.8859R. An attacker with local code execution privileges as a normal user (MAINAPP) can escalate to root privileges by exploiting the setuid installation of the xtables-multi binary and leveraging the ip6tables --modprobe switch.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-269

Primary references