What is CVE-2020-28046?
An issue was discovered in ProlinOS through 2.4.161.8859R. An attacker with local code execution privileges as a normal user (MAINAPP) can escalate to root privileges by exploiting the setuid installation of the xtables-multi binary and leveraging the ip6tables --modprobe switch.
The identifier was first published 2183 days ago.
Severity and exploitation probability
- EPSS (FIRST)
- 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41.8% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- Threadlinqs priority
- 1.7/10 — a Threadlinqs composite of the CVSS base score, the EPSS percentile and public exploit availability
- Published
- 2020-11-01, last modified 2024-08-04
Is CVE-2020-28046 being exploited?
It currently carries a trending score of 15 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.
Affected products and versions
No affected-product or package list has been recorded for CVE-2020-28046 in the tracked sources. The vendor advisory and the references below are the authoritative statement of what is affected.
How to fix CVE-2020-28046
No vendor patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2020-28046 in the tracked sources. Follow the references below for a fix, and treat any affected deployment as exposed until the vendor states otherwise.
Threat activity tracking CVE-2020-28046
1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2020-28046, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.
Sources
Enriched from CVE.org, FIRST EPSS, GitHub Security Advisories. Last verified by Threadlinqs on .