CVE-2020-12050

Upstream information

CVE-2020-12050 at MITRE

Description

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.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.9
Vector	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

CVSS v3 Scores

CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector	Local
Attack Complexity	High
Privileges Required	Low
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1171041 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• openSUSE-SU-2020:0612-1, published Thu Dec 7 12:55:39 2023
• openSUSE-SU-2020:0628-1, published Thu Dec 7 12:55:39 2023

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP1	sqliteodbc >= 0.9996-bp151.4.3.1 sqliteodbc-doc >= 0.9996-bp151.4.3.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-2020-612
openSUSE Leap 15.1	sqliteodbc >= 0.9996-lp151.3.3.1 sqliteodbc-doc >= 0.9996-lp151.3.3.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-2020-628
openSUSE Tumbleweed	sqliteodbc >= 0.9998-1.7 sqliteodbc-doc >= 0.9998-1.7	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-11401

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri May 1 00:56:57 2020
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 19:25:05 2025