CVE-2020-15861: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Net-SNMP through 5.7.3 allows Escalation of Privileges because of UNIX symbolic link (symlink) following.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 20.04 only
• Net-SNMP Net-SNMP: up to and including 5.7.3
• Netapp Cloud Backup: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Smi-S Provider: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Solidfire & Hci Management Node: affected versions not specified

Published 2020-08-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.