geffner/CVE-2020-8290

geffner/CVE-2020-8290

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CVE-2020-8290 – Elevation of Privilege in Backblaze
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CVE History

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CVE-2020-8290↗
7.8 HIGH4.6 MEDIUM

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.