CVE-2020-24331

Published: Aug 13, 2020Modified: Nov 21, 2024

7.8

Vector

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

Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 5.9

Source: NVD

Description

An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14. If the tcsd daemon is started with root privileges, the tss user still has read and write access to the /etc/tcsd.conf file (which contains various settings related to this daemon).

Affected (2)

Products: Trousers Project: Trousers · Fedoraproject: Fedora

1 product

1 product

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Trousers Project Trousers	Up to 0.3.14

Configuration B

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Fedoraproject Fedora	Version 33

Related CWEs

CWE-269

Improper Privilege Management

The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

References (10)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/14/1

Source: cve@mitre.org

ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164472

Source: cve@mitre.org

ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SSDL7COIFCZQMUBNAASNMKMX7W5JUHRD/

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q2/att-135/tcsd_fixes.patch

Source: cve@mitre.org

Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory

https://sourceforge.net/p/trousers/mailman/message/37015817/

Source: cve@mitre.org

ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/14/1