CVE-2020-8013permissions: chkstat sets unintended setuid/capabilities for mrsh and wodim
- 2.2LowCVSS base score
- 0.32%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 75% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in chkstat of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 set permissions intended for specific binaries on other binaries because it erroneously followed symlinks. The symlinks can't be controlled by attackers on default systems, so exploitation is difficult. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 permissions versions prior to 2015.09.28.1626-17.27.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 permissions versions prior to 20181116-9.23.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 permissions versions prior to 2013.1.7-0.6.12.1.
Timeline
ID reserved
By suse
- 35 days later
· 35 days later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| suseCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low2.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Low2.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.32% · top 75% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.2.
Affected products
SUSE · SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
- affected permissions – < 2015.09.28.1626-17.27.1
SUSE · SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
- affected permissions – < 20181116-9.23.1
SUSE · SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
- affected permissions – < 2013.1.7-0.6.12.1
References
References2
- openSUSE-SU-2020:0302 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1163922 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-28926 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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