Vulnerability · Published Jun 15, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-14156

High 8.8

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.8% (higher than 79% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)8.8High

Exploit odds (30 days)1.8%top 21.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

user_channel/passwd_mgr.cpp in OpenBMC phosphor-host-ipmid before 2020-04-03 does not ensure that /etc/ipmi-pass has strong file permissions.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://github.com/openbmc/phosphor-host-ipmid/commit/b265455a2518ece7c004b43c144199ec980fc620 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/issues/3670 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/openbmc/2020-June/022020.html x_refsource_CONFIRM