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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.1

CVE-2020-8025 json

outdated entries in permissions profiles for /var/lib/pcp/tmp/* may cause security issues

published 2020-08-07 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-28937

cvss
6.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 41%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A Incorrect Execution-Assigned Permissions vulnerability in the permissions package of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15; openSUSE Leap 15.1, openSUSE Tumbleweed sets the permissions for some of the directories of the pcp package to unintended settings. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4 permissions versions prior to 20170707-3.24.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS permissions versions prior to 20180125-3.27.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15 permissions versions prior to 20180125-3.27.1. openSUSE Leap 15.1 permissions versions prior to 20181116-lp151.4.24.1. openSUSE Tumbleweed permissions versions prior to 20200624.

Patch / fix

  • SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4 20170707-3.24.1
  • SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS 20180125-3.27.1
  • SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15 20180125-3.27.1
  • openSUSE openSUSE Leap 15.1 20181116-lp151.4.24.1
  • openSUSE openSUSE Tumbleweed 20200624
  • pcp SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 3.11.9-6.17.1
  • pcp openSUSE Leap 15.4, openSUSE Leap 15.3 3.11.9-150000.5.14.1
  • pcp SLES for SAP 15, SLES 15-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15-LTSS +1 more 3.11.9-5.11.5
  • permissions SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP2 20181224-23.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:1873-1SUSE-SU-2022:1509-1SUSE-SU-2021:1292-1SUSE-SU-2021:0197-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2020-8025 updated cvss 9.3

pcp: Insecure permission of /var/lib/pcp/tmp/ directories on SUSE

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 pcp, pcp-gui, pcp-conf, pcp-libs, pcp-webjs, pcp-webapi, +71 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 pcp, pcp-gui, pcp-conf, pcp-libs, pcp-webjs, pcp-webapi, +89 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 pcp, pcp-gui, pcp-conf, pcp-libs, pcp-manager, pcp-pmda-dm, +94 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 pcp, pcp-gui, pcp-conf, pcp-libs, pcp-pmda-dm, pcp-selinux, +98 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bugzilla.suse.com https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1171883 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD 3.1 9.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4
  • SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS
  • SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15
  • openSUSE openSUSE Leap 15.1
  • openSUSE openSUSE Tumbleweed

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-279 Incorrect Execution-Assigned Permissions

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.