CVE-2020-8032

Publication date 25 February 2021

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A Insecure Temporary File vulnerability in the packaging of cyrus-sasl of openSUSE Factory allows local attackers to escalate to root. This issue affects: openSUSE Factory cyrus-sasl version 2.1.27-4.2 and prior versions.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
cyrus-sasl2	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	21.04 hirsute	Ignored end of life
	20.10 groovy	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

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upstream and Ubuntu never affected

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.0 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.0 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H