freedesktop systemd CVE-2020-13776 vulnerability in FreeDesktop and Other Products
Published on June 3, 2020

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systemd through v245 mishandles numerical usernames such as ones composed of decimal digits or 0x followed by hex digits, as demonstrated by use of root privileges when privileges of the 0x0 user account were intended. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-1000082.

Vendor Advisory NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2020-13776 is exploitable with local system access, requires user interaction and a small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.

Attack Vector:
LOCAL
Attack Complexity:
HIGH
Privileges Required:
LOW
User Interaction:
REQUIRED
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
HIGH
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Weakness Type

Improper Privilege Management

The software does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.


Products Associated with CVE-2020-13776

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FreeDesktop Systemd
 
Systemdproject Systemd
 
NetApp Active Iq Unified Manager
 
NetApp Solidfire Hci Management Node
 
Fedora Project Fedora
 

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.13%
Percentile
32.17%

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