CVE-2016-20015: Smokeping

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the ebuild package through smokeping-2.7.3-r1 for SmokePing on Gentoo, the initscript allows the smokeping user to gain ownership of any file, allowing for the smokeping user to gain root privileges. There is a race condition involving /var/lib/smokeping and chown.

Affected products

• Smokeping Smokeping: up to and including 2.7.3-r1

Published 2022-09-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.