VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2020-24330
An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14.
HIGH 7.8EPSS 0.49%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.49%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.49% probability · 40th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-269
- Affected
- trousers project/trousers · fedoraproject/fedora
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/14/1Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164472Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SSDL7COIFCZQMUBNAASNMKMX7W5JUHRD/
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q2/att-135/tcsd_fixes.patchMailing 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/2020/08/14/1Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164472Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SSDL7COIFCZQMUBNAASNMKMX7W5JUHRD/
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q2/att-135/tcsd_fixes.patchMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceforge.net/p/trousers/mailman/message/37015817/Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.