CVE-2020-12050 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2020-12050?

CVE-2020-12050 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 30 Apr 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

SQLiteODBC 0.9996, as packaged for certain Linux distributions as 0.9996-4, has a race condition leading to root privilege escalation because any user can replace a /tmp/sqliteodbc$$ file with new contents that cause loading of an arbitrary library.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-12050?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Opensuse Backports Sle, Sqliteodbc Project Sqliteodbc.

How do I fix CVE-2020-12050?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2020-12050 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-12050 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-12050, GHSA-8q4v-jg8h-7hjg, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-12050, openSUSE-SU-2020:0612-1, openSUSE-SU-2020:0628-1, openSUSE-SU-2024:11401-1.