CVE-2020-28935
Local symlink attack in Unbound and NSD
02 Description
Local symlink attack in Unbound and NSD
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
- 0.49% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 42.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
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
- 2020-12-07 21:46Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-16 23:27Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-11-18
- Assigning CNA
- NLnet Labs
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 388c3f3e27562ce89aac19de99d189861122da6ac1a1a507919b6700ddef1bed
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.nlnetlabs.nlhttps://www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/unbound/CVE-2020-28935.txt
- www.nlnetlabs.nlhttps://www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/nsd/CVE-2020-28935.txt
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-202101-38https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-38
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20210212 [SECURITY] [DLA 2556-1] unbound1.9 security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00017.html
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20230329 [SECURITY] [DLA 3371-1] unbound security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00024.html
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- nsd Fixed in 4.3.4-1
- unbound Fixed in 1.13.0-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- nsd Fixed in 4.3.4-1
- unbound Fixed in 1.13.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- nsd Fixed in 4.3.4-1
- unbound Fixed in 1.13.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- nsd Fixed in 4.3.4-1
- unbound Fixed in 1.13.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- unbound Fixed in 1.6.7-1ubuntu2.4
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- unbound Fixed in 1.9.4-2ubuntu1.2
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS
- unbound No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS
- unbound 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.