CVE-2020-36394

7.0 highEPSS 0.3%

High (7.0) in pam setquota project pam setquota. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

pam_setquota.c in the pam_setquota module before 2020-05-29 for Linux-PAM allows local attackers to set their quota on an arbitrary filesystem, in certain situations where the attacker's home directory is a FUSE filesystem mounted under /home.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.0 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 28% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published: 2021-06-22
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

pam_setquota_project:pam_setquota

References

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q2/169
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q2/169

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