CVE detail

CVE-2020-15862 — CVE-2020-15862

Published 2020-08-20 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor net-snmp · Product net-snmp · Source nvd

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

7.8

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0038

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

31.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

Net-SNMP through 5.8 has Improper Privilege Management because SNMP WRITE access to the EXTEND MIB provides the ability to run arbitrary commands as root.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

cvedb.io · NVD · CISA KEV · FIRST EPSS · vendor advisories (CVE Program List v5). Informational only, no warranty — verify every remediation against the vendor advisory before acting on it. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD, CISA, FIRST.org or any vendor named. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.