Vulnerability · Published Jun 23, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-14976
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 42% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 58.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
GNS3 ubridge through 0.9.18 on macOS, as used in GNS3 server before 2.1.17, allows a local attacker to read arbitrary files because it handles configuration-file errors by printing the configuration file while executing in a setuid root context.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://www.gns3.com/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/GNS3/ubridge/commit/2eb0d1dab6a6de76cf3556130a2d52af101077db x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/GNS3/gns3-server/releases/tag/v2.1.17 x_refsource_MISC
- https://theevilbit.github.io/posts/ x_refsource_MISC