CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-24331
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-08-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14. If the tcsd daemon is started with root privileges, the tss user still has read and write access to the /etc/tcsd.conf file (which contains various settings related to this daemon).
Affected configurations
• trousers project trousers (<= 0.3.14)
• fedoraproject fedora 33
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- 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/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- 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
- 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/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- 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