CVE-2020-8290

Published December 27th, 2020

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CVSS v3

7.8

HIGH

CVSS v2

4.6

MEDIUM

Affected

PROJECT

Description

Backblaze for Windows and Backblaze for macOS before 7.0.0.439 suffer from improper privilege management in `bztransmit` helper due to lack of permission handling and validation before creation of client update directories allowing for local escalation of privilege via rogue client update binary.

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CVE-2020-8290 – Elevation of Privilege in Backblaze

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