CVE-2020-12050 — Vulnetix

CVE-2020-12050 PUBLISHED

SQLiteODBC 0.9996, as packaged for certain Linux distributions as 0.9996-4, has a race condition leading to root privilege escalation because any user can replace a /tmp/sqliteodbc$$ file with new contents that cause loading of an arbitrary library.

EPSS 0.09% · 25.4th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.09%

25.4th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:24.04:LTS	sqliteodbc	0, 0.99991-1build1, 0.99991-1
Ubuntu:20.04:LTS	sqliteodbc	0.9996-2, 0, 0.9996-1
Ubuntu:25.10	sqliteodbc	0, 0.99991-3, 0.99991-2build1
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS	sqliteodbc	0, 0.9995-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS	sqliteodbc	0.9998-3, 0, 0.9998-2
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	sqliteodbc	0.9992-0.1, 0.999-1, 0

Exploit Intelligence

https://sysdream.com/news/lab/ (circl)
http://www.ch-werner.de/sqliteodbc/ (circl)
FEDORA-2020-1e85425a52 (circl)
FEDORA-2020-c98c7da2f6 (circl)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1825762 (circl)
FEDORA-2020-df7c647fa3 (circl)
openSUSE-SU-2020:0612 (circl)
openSUSE-SU-2020:0628 (circl)
https://sysdream.com/news/lab/2020-05-25-cve-2020-12050-fedora-red-hat-centos-local-privilege-escalation-through-a-race-condition-in-the-sqliteodbc-installer-script/ (circl)

Timeline

Apr 30, 2020 CVE Published
Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
Jan 6, 2022 EPSS Score
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
Apr 1, 2022 EPSS Score
May 1, 2022 EPSS Score
Jul 3, 2022 EPSS Score
Sep 4, 2022 EPSS Score

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-12050 third-party-advisory
http://www.ch-werner.de/sqliteodbc/ third-party-advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1825762 third-party-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PDS5RK7F47BRXHUYRWGMGLYU2GJEVZQA/ third-party-advisory
https://sysdream.com/news/lab/ third-party-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12050 third-party-advisory

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