{"id":"CVE-2020-24332","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-24332","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T22:32:30.932Z","title":"The tss user can be used to create or corrupt existing files, which could possibly lead to a DoS attack.","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.","published":"2020-08-13T17:15:14.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:05:23.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-59"],"affected":["trustedcomputinggroup/trousers","fedoraproject/fedora"],"epss":{"score":0.00553,"percentile":0.45938,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.55%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/14/1","tags":["Exploit","Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164472","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SSDL7COIFCZQMUBNAASNMKMX7W5JUHRD/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q2/att-135/tcsd_fixes.patch","tags":["Mailing List","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://sourceforge.net/p/trousers/mailman/message/37015817/","tags":["Exploit","Mailing List","Mitigation","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/14/1","tags":["Exploit","Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164472","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SSDL7COIFCZQMUBNAASNMKMX7W5JUHRD/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q2/att-135/tcsd_fixes.patch","tags":["Mailing List","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://sourceforge.net/p/trousers/mailman/message/37015817/","tags":["Exploit","Mailing List","Mitigation","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-24332","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}