CVE-2020-24330
HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: August 13, 2020 at 04:19 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:05 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsFedoraTrousers
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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
Description
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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
95%
v ≤ 0.3.14
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (5)
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTExploitThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/14/1x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164472Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SSDL7COIFCZQMUBNAASNMKMX7W5JUHRD/x_refsource_MISCMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q2/att-135/tcsd_fixes.patchx_refsource_MISCExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://sourceforge.net/p/trousers/mailman/message/37015817/CVSS
- Attack Vector
- LOCAL
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- LOW
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-269
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