High
Security advisory
Checkmk before 1.6.0p17 allows local users to obtain SYSTEM privileges via a Trojan horse shell script in the %PROGRAMDATA%\checkmk\agent\local directory.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-24908
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:29 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Checkmk before 1.6.0p17 allows local users to obtain SYSTEM privileges via a Trojan horse shell script in the %PROGRAMDATA%\checkmk\agent\local directory.
osv:CVE-2020-24908
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:40.161210853Z",
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