CVE-2020-24330

An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14. If the tcsd daemon is started with root privileges instead of by the tss user, it fails to drop the root gid privilege when no longer needed.

CVSS v3 7.8 HIGH
CVSS v2.0 7.2 HIGH

7.8^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

7.2^/10

CVSS v2.0 : HIGH

Vector : AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 10.0

Access Vector LOCAL

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact COMPLETE

Integrity Impact COMPLETE

Availability Impact COMPLETE

References

Link	Resource
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/14/1	Exploit Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164472	Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SSDL7COIFCZQMUBNAASNMKMX7W5JUHRD/
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q2/att-135/tcsd_fixes.patch	Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
https://sourceforge.net/p/trousers/mailman/message/37015817/	Exploit Mailing List Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:trousers_project:trousers:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2020-08-13 17:15

Updated : 2023-11-07 03:19

NVD link : CVE-2020-24330

Mitre link : CVE-2020-24330

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2020-24330

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Products Affected

fedoraproject

fedora

trousers_project

trousers

CWE

CWE-269

Improper Privilege Management

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