CVE-2020-14156
mediumpriority · track · 36OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.018 · 79 %ileEUUSgrimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
1.81% (79th) EPSS
CVSS 6.5 · medium
Who says so?
3 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd
EPSS · scored 2026-10-28
user_channel/passwd_mgr.cpp in OpenBMC phosphor-host-ipmid before 2020-04-03 does not ensure that /etc/ipmi-pass has strong file permissions.
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cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
8.8
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.5–8.8
v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.9
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weaknesses
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affected products (2)
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also known as (3)
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sources
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references (12)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- http://www.nsfocus.net/vulndb/48713cnnvd
- https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/issues/3670cnnvd
- https://github.com/openbmc/phosphor-host-ipmid/commit/b265455a2518ece7c004b43c144199ec980fc620cnnvd
- https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/openbmc/2020-June/022020.htmlcnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-14156cnnvd
- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-incorrect-file-permissions-allows-authenticated-users-to-recover-ipmi-user-passwords/cnnvd
- https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/issues/3670enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/openbmc/phosphor-host-ipmid/commit/b265455a2518ece7c004b43c144199ec980fc620enisa_euvd
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