High
Security advisory
A flaw was found in Linux, in targetcli-fb versions 2.1.50 and 2.1.51 where the socket used by targetclid was world-writable. If a system enables the targetclid socket, a local attacker can use this flaw to modify the iSCSI configuration and escalate their privileges to root.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-10699
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:43 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was found in Linux, in targetcli-fb versions 2.1.50 and 2.1.51 where the socket used by targetclid was world-writable. If a system enables the targetclid socket, a local attacker can use this flaw to modify the iSCSI configuration and escalate their privileges to root.
osv:CVE-2020-10699
Complete source record
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