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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-15862: Security patch for net-snmp (ALAS-2021-1465)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-15862: Security patch for net-snmp (ALAS-2021-1465)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
08/20/2020
Created
01/20/2021
Added
01/15/2021
Modified
01/15/2021

Description

Net-SNMP through 5.7.3 has Improper Privilege Management because SNMP WRITE access to the EXTEND MIB provides the ability to run arbitrary commands as root.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-net-snmp

References

  • ALAS-2021-1465
  • USN-4471-1
  • USN-4471-2
  • CVE-2020-15862

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