High
Security advisory
Net-SNMP through 5.8 has Improper Privilege Management because SNMP WRITE access to the EXTEND MIB provides the ability to run arbitrary commands as root.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-15862
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:33 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Net-SNMP through 5.8 has Improper Privilege Management because SNMP WRITE access to the EXTEND MIB provides the ability to run arbitrary commands as root.
osv:CVE-2020-15862
Complete source record
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