CVE-2020-8024: Opensuse Hylafax+

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A Incorrect Default Permissions vulnerability in the packaging of hylafax+ of openSUSE Leap 15.2, openSUSE Leap 15.1, openSUSE Factory allows local attackers to escalate from user uucp to users calling hylafax binaries. This issue affects: openSUSE Leap 15.2 hylafax+ versions prior to 7.0.2-lp152.2.1. openSUSE Leap 15.1 hylafax+ version 5.6.1-lp151.3.7 and prior versions. openSUSE Factory hylafax+ versions prior to 7.0.2-2.1.

Affected products

• Opensuse Hylafax+: before 7.0.2-lp152.2.1 (fixed in 7.0.2-lp152.2.1); before 5.6.1-lp151.3.7 (fixed in 5.6.1-lp151.3.7); before 7.0.2-2.1 (fixed in 7.0.2-2.1)

Published 2020-06-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.