CVE-2020-12878 (GCVE-0-2020-12878)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-02-17 23:07 – Updated: 2024-08-04 12:11
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Summary
Digi ConnectPort X2e before 3.2.30.6 allows an attacker to escalate privileges from the python user to root via a symlink attack that uses chown, related to /etc/init.d/S50dropbear.sh and the /WEB/python/.ssh directory.
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