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hylafax — security advisory
In HylaFAX+ through 7.0.2 and HylaFAX Enterprise, the faxsetup utility calls chown on files in user-owned directories. By winning a race, a local attacker could use this to escalate his privileges to root.
- Products
- hylafax
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 3:6.0.7-3.1
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-15396
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 12:30 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In HylaFAX+ through 7.0.2 and HylaFAX Enterprise, the faxsetup utility calls chown on files in user-owned directories. By winning a race, a local attacker could use this to escalate his privileges to root.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-15396
hylafax
Fixed versions: 3:6.0.7-3.1
hylafax
Fixed versions: 3:6.0.7-3.1
hylafax
Fixed versions: 3:6.0.7-3.1
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 451112,
"published_at": "2020-06-30T12:15:12.43+00:00"
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