CVE detail

CVE-2020-8290 — CVE-2020-8290

Published 2020-12-27 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor backblaze · Product backblaze · Source nvd

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

7.8

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0058

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

45.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

Backblaze for Windows and Backblaze for macOS before 7.0.0.439 suffer from improper privilege management in `bztransmit` helper due to lack of permission handling and validation before creation of client update directories allowing for local escalation of privilege via rogue client update binary.

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.