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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2020-8023"
idYear: 2020
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2020-09-01T11:25:12.674Z"
updatedAt: "2024-09-16T18:33:45.008Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:21.187Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2020-8023"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2020-8023.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-8023"
title: "Local privilege escalation from ldap to root when using OPENLDAP_CONFIG_BACKEND=ldap in openldap2"
summary: "A acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data vulnerability in the start script of openldap2 of SUSE Enterprise Storage 5, SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SECURITY, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCL, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-LTSS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15, SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7, SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8, SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8; openSUSE Leap 15.1, openSUSE Leap 15.2 allows local attackers to escalate privileges from user ldap to root. This issue affects: SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 openldap2 versions prior to 2.4.41-18.71.2. SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3 openldap2 versions prior to 2.4.26-0.74.13.1,. SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 openldap2 versions prior to 2.4.26-0.74.13.1,. SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3 openldap2 versions prior to 2.4.26-0.74.13.1,. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SECURITY openldap2-client-openssl1 versions prior to 2.4.26-0.74.13.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSS openldap2 versions prior to 2.4.26-0.74.13.1,. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL openldap2 versions prior to 2.4.41-18.71.2. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS openldap2 versions prior to 2.4.41-18.71.2. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCL openldap2 versions prior to 2.4.41-18.71.2. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-LTSS openldap2 versions prior to 2.4.41-18.71.2. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4 openldap2 versions prior to 2.4.41-18.71.2. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 openldap2 versions prior to 2.4.41-18.71.2. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS openldap2 versions prior to 2.4.46-9.31.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2 openldap2 versions prior to 2.4.41-18.71.2. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3 openldap2 versions prior to 2.4.41-18.71.2. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15 openldap2 versions prior to 2.4.46-9.31.1. SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 openldap2 versions prior to 2.4.41-18.71.2. SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 openldap2 versions prior to 2.4.41-18.71.2. SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 openldap2 versions prior to 2.4.41-18.71.2. openSUSE Leap 15.1 openldap2 versions prior to 2.4.46-lp151.10.12.1. openSUSE Leap 15.2 openldap2 versions prior to 2.4.46-lp152.14.3.1."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"openldap2","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"2.4.41-18.71.2"}],"vendor":"SUSE","product":"SUSE Enterprise Storage 5"},{"versions":[{"version":"openldap2","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"2.4.26-0.74.13.1,"}],"vendor":"SUSE","product":"SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3"},{"versions":[{"version":"openldap2","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"2.4.26-0.74.13.1,"}],"vendor":"SUSE","product":"SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4"},{"versions":[{"version":"openldap2","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"2.4.26-0.74.13.1,"}],"vendor":"SUSE","product":"SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3"},{"versions":[{"version":"openldap2-client-openssl1","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"2.4.26-0.74.13.1"}],"vendor":"SUSE","product":"SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SECURITY"},{"versions":[{"version":"openldap2","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"2.4.26-0.74.13.1,"}],"vendor":"SUSE","product":"SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSS"},{"versions":[{"version":"openldap2","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"2.4.41-18.71.2"}],"vendor":"SUSE","product":"SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL"},{"versions":[{"version":"openldap2","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"2.4.41-18.71.2"}],"vendor":"SUSE","product":"SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS"},{"versions":[{"version":"openldap2","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"2.4.41-18.71.2"}],"vendor":"SUSE","product":"SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCL"},{"versions":[{"version":"openldap2","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"2.4.41-18.71.2"}],"vendor":"SUSE","product":"SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-LTSS"},{"versions":[{"version":"openldap2","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"2.4.41-18.71.2"}],"vendor":"SUSE","product":"SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4"},{"versions":[{"version":"openldap2","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"2.4.41-18.71.2"}],"vendor":"SUSE","product":"SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5"},{"versions":[{"version":"openldap2","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"2.4.46-9.31.1"}],"vendor":"SUSE","product":"SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS"},{"versions":[{"version":"openldap2","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"2.4.41-18.71.2"}],"vendor":"SUSE","product":"SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2"},{"versions":[{"version":"openldap2","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"2.4.41-18.71.2"}],"vendor":"SUSE","product":"SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3"},{"versions":[{"version":"openldap2","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"2.4.46-9.31.1"}],"vendor":"SUSE","product":"SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15"},{"versions":[{"version":"openldap2","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"2.4.41-18.71.2"}],"vendor":"SUSE","product":"SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7"},{"versions":[{"version":"openldap2","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"2.4.41-18.71.2"}],"vendor":"SUSE","product":"SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8"},{"versions":[{"version":"openldap2","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"2.4.41-18.71.2"}],"vendor":"SUSE","product":"SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8"},{"versions":[{"version":"openldap2","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"2.4.46-lp151.10.12.1"}],"vendor":"openSUSE","product":"openSUSE Leap 15.1"},{"versions":[{"version":"openldap2","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"2.4.46-lp152.14.3.1"}],"vendor":"openSUSE","product":"openSUSE Leap 15.2"}]

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