CVEs-PoC/2020/CVE-2020-16995.md

CVE-2020-16995

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Network Watcher Agent virtual machine extension for Linux. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute code with elevated privileges.

To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to be present as a user on the affected virtual machine.

The security update addresses this vulnerability by correcting how Network Watcher Agent virtual machine extension for Linux executes with elevated privileges.

POC

Reference

No PoCs from references.

Github

• https://github.com/alphaSeclab/sec-daily-2020