CVE-2020-8025outdated entries in permissions profiles for /var/lib/pcp/tmp/* may cause security issues
- 6.1MediumCVSS base score
- 0.47%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 58% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A Incorrect Execution-Assigned Permissions vulnerability in the permissions package of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15; openSUSE Leap 15.1, openSUSE Tumbleweed sets the permissions for some of the directories of the pcp package to unintended settings. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4 permissions versions prior to 20170707-3.24.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS permissions versions prior to 20180125-3.27.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15 permissions versions prior to 20180125-3.27.1. openSUSE Leap 15.1 permissions versions prior to 20181116-lp151.4.24.1. openSUSE Tumbleweed permissions versions prior to 20200624.
Timeline
ID reserved
By suse
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 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 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.47% · top 58% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Affected products
SUSE · SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4
- affected permissions – < 20170707-3.24.1
SUSE · SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS
- affected permissions – < 20180125-3.27.1
SUSE · SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15
- affected permissions – < 20180125-3.27.1
- affected permissions – < 20181116-lp151.4.24.1
openSUSE · openSUSE Tumbleweed
- affected permissions – < 20200624
References
References1
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1171883 (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-2020-28937 (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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