CVE-2020-8948: Sierra Wireless Mobile Broadband Driver Package

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

The Sierra Wireless Windows Mobile Broadband Driver Packages (MBDP) before build 5043 allows an unprivileged user to overwrite arbitrary files in arbitrary folders using hard links. An unprivileged user could leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with system privileges.

Affected products

• Sierra Wireless Mobile Broadband Driver Package: before 5043 (fixed in 5043)

Published 2020-04-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.