Vulnerability · Published Oct 23, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-24848
High 7.8
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 0.4% (higher than 33% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 66.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
FruityWifi through 2.4 has an unsafe Sudo configuration [(ALL : ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL]. This allows an attacker to perform a system-level (root) local privilege escalation, allowing an attacker to gain complete persistent access to the local system.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://github.com/xtr4nge/FruityWifi/issues/278 x_refsource_MISC
- https://gist.github.com/harsh-bothra/5be73cfd53f1c5bea307c702ae83ff42 x_refsource_MISC