CVE-2020-8014 kopano-python-services: Local privilege escalation from kopano to root in kopano-spamd subpackage

What is CVE-2020-8014?

CVE-2020-8014 is a high-severity vulnerability in Opensuse Leap, published on 29 Jun 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the packaging of kopano-spamd of openSUSE Leap 15.1, openSUSE Tumbleweed allowed local attackers with the privileges of the kopano user to escalate to root. This issue affects: openSUSE Leap 15.1 kopano-spamd versions prior to 10.0.5-lp151.4.1. openSUSE Tumbleweed kopano-spamd versions prior to 10.0.5-1.1.

Weakness: CWE-61

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-8014?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Opensuse Leap, Opensuse Tumbleweed Kopano-Spamd.

How do I fix CVE-2020-8014?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-8014 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2020-8014 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-8014 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Leap

• CVE-2015-4902 Oracle Java SE Integrity Check Exploited Medium 5.3
• CVE-2017-14804 package builds could use directory traversal to write outside of target area Critical 9.9
• CVE-2019-20787 Teeworlds before 0.7.4 has an integer overflow when computing a tilemap size. Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-8341 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-6438 Other in n/a Critical 9.8

All Opensuse Leap vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-vh3v-64vx-mqg3.