CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-24330
High (7.8). EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 41% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-269
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- fedoraproject:fedora
- trousers_project:trousers
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/14/1
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164472
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SSDL7COIFCZQMUBNAASNMKMX7W5JUHRD/
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q2/att-135/tcsd_fixes.patch
- https://sourceforge.net/p/trousers/mailman/message/37015817/