CVE 2020-15861

Net-SNMP through 5.7.3 allows Escalation of Privileges because of UNIX symbolic link (symlink) following.

Related bugs and status

CVE-2020-15861 (Candidate) is related to these bugs:

Bug #1875926: snmpd upgrade (Bionic->Focal) changes Debian-snmp UID/GID

Summary				In	Importance	Status
	1875926	snmpd upgrade (Bionic->Focal) changes Debian-snmp UID/GID		net-snmp (Ubuntu)	Undecided	Fix Released
	1875926	snmpd upgrade (Bionic->Focal) changes Debian-snmp UID/GID		net-snmp (Ubuntu Bionic)	Undecided	Fix Released

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CVE page on Mitre.org for more details.