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01 Record

CVE-2020-8023

Local privilege escalation from ldap to root when using OPENLDAP_CONFIG_BACKEND=ldap in openldap2

HighPUBLISHEDCNA: suse
CNA base score7.7 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

02 Description

Local privilege escalation from ldap to root when using OPENLDAP_CONFIG_BACKEND=ldap in openldap2

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
0.40% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 34.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
7.8 (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: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
2020-09-01 11:25Z6 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-09-16 18:33Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2020-01-27
Assigning CNA
suse
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
High (CVSS 7.7)
CNA CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
  • CWE-349Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted DataBase
Data version
5.1
Document digest
e0372cce62ef307612906f76fac6cb91c73274dc3fc54e87070448ffefdaf38c

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
SUSESUSE Enterprise Storage 5openldap2 to < 2.4.41-18.71.2—
SUSESUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3openldap2 to < 2.4.26-0.74.13.1,—
SUSESUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4openldap2 to < 2.4.26-0.74.13.1,—
SUSESUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3openldap2 to < 2.4.26-0.74.13.1,—
SUSESUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SECURITYopenldap2-client-openssl1 to < 2.4.26-0.74.13.1—
SUSESUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSSopenldap2 to < 2.4.26-0.74.13.1,—
SUSESUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCLopenldap2 to < 2.4.41-18.71.2—
SUSESUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSSopenldap2 to < 2.4.41-18.71.2—
SUSESUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCLopenldap2 to < 2.4.41-18.71.2—
SUSESUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-LTSSopenldap2 to < 2.4.41-18.71.2—
SUSESUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4openldap2 to < 2.4.41-18.71.2—
SUSESUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5openldap2 to < 2.4.41-18.71.2—
SUSESUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSSopenldap2 to < 2.4.46-9.31.1—
SUSESUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2openldap2 to < 2.4.41-18.71.2—
SUSESUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3openldap2 to < 2.4.41-18.71.2—
SUSESUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15openldap2 to < 2.4.46-9.31.1—
SUSESUSE OpenStack Cloud 7openldap2 to < 2.4.41-18.71.2—
SUSESUSE OpenStack Cloud 8openldap2 to < 2.4.41-18.71.2—
SUSESUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8openldap2 to < 2.4.41-18.71.2—
openSUSEopenSUSE Leap 15.1openldap2 to < 2.4.46-lp151.10.12.1—
openSUSEopenSUSE Leap 15.2openldap2 to < 2.4.46-lp152.14.3.1—

06 References