CVE-2020-24330

high

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.

References

https://sourceforge.net/p/trousers/mailman/message/37015817/

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q2/att-135/tcsd_fixes.patch

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SSDL7COIFCZQMUBNAASNMKMX7W5JUHRD/

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164472

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/14/1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-08-13

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H