CVE-2020-12050
SQLiteODBC 0.9996, as packaged for certain Linux distributions as 0.9996-4, has a race condition leading to root privilege escalation because any user can replace a /tmp/sqliteodbc$$ file with new
02 Description
SQLiteODBC 0.9996, as packaged for certain Linux distributions as 0.9996-4, has a race condition leading to root privilege escalation because any user can replace a /tmp/sqliteodbc$$ file with new
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.30% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 23.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.0 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-04-30 16:09Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 11:48Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-04-21
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')Class
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 6cbaba601cb1b3e1846fb70a0172dac8aa69d75903ef1ec206a3937661412c60
05 Affected products
06 References
- sysdream.comhttps://sysdream.com/news/lab/
- www.ch-werner.dehttp://www.ch-werner.de/sqliteodbc/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2020-1e85425a52https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PR6B33IGBADGYDBTEEU36OGERER2HOGQ/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2020-c98c7da2f6https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WXPHBDVB3LAQUQJCZ4WIS3JWM7JFR56X/
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1825762
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2020-df7c647fa3https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PDS5RK7F47BRXHUYRWGMGLYU2GJEVZQA/
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:0612http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00013.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:0628http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00026.html
- sysdream.comhttps://sysdream.com/news/lab/2020-05-25-cve-2020-12050-fedora-red-hat-centos-local-privilege-escalation-through-a-race-condition-in-the-sqliteodbc-installer-script/
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- sqliteodbc No fix yet
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- sqliteodbc No fix yet
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- sqliteodbc No fix yet
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- sqliteodbc No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- sqliteodbc No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- sqliteodbc No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- sqliteodbc No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
- sqliteodbc No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 25.10
- sqliteodbc No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
- sqliteodbc No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 26.10
- sqliteodbc No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.