CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-24332
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-08-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
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 configurations
• trustedcomputinggroup trousers (<= 0.3.14)
• fedoraproject fedora 33
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access 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, Mitigation, 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, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory