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CVE-2020-24332

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: August 13, 2020 at 04:18 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:05 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsFedoraTrousers

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%

Description

An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14. If the tcsd daemon is started with root privileges, the creation of the system.data file is prone to symlink attacks. The tss user can be used to create or corrupt existing files, which could possibly lead to a DoS attack.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

References (5)

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTExploitThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/14/1
x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164472
Vendor 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.patch
x_refsource_MISCExploitMailing ListMitigationThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://sourceforge.net/p/trousers/mailman/message/37015817/

CVSS

5.5MEDIUM[email protected]
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-59

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