CVE-2020-28169

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    CVE-2020-28169

    Published: 24 Dec 2020Last Modified: 10 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: The td-agent-builder plugin before 2020-12-18 for Fluentd allows attackers to gain privileges because the bin directory is writable by a user account, but a file in bin is executed as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.

    References: , https://docs.fluentd.org/installation/install-by-msi, https://td-agent-package-browser.herokuapp.com/4/windows, https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4949, https://www.fluentd.org/, https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/issues/3201, https://github.com/kenhys/td-agent-builder/commit/eec6e2dedf12f2e0c01c2bbe7b8c15b639b3b938, https://github.com/fluent-plugins-nursery/td-agent-builder/pull/247/commits/6f9cb6393392d62caa99907c0ebbcbab6b94a3f1, http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160791/Fluentd-TD-agent-4.0.1-Insecure-Folder-Permission.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    CVE-2020-28169 | CVE-DB