Vulnerability · Published Jan 30, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-8446

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-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 0.5% (higher than 43% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 56.7% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In OSSEC-HIDS 2.7 through 3.5.0, the server component responsible for log analysis (ossec-analysisd) is vulnerable to path traversal (with write access) via crafted syscheck messages written directly to the analysisd UNIX domain socket by a local user.

Affected products (as reported)

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

References

https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids/issues/1821 x_refsource_MISC
https://www.ossec.net/ x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids/issues/1813 x_refsource_MISC
GLSA-202007-33 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO