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CVE-2020-24332

MEDIUM

5.5

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score5.5

SeverityMEDIUM

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

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredLOW

User InteractionNONE

Published8/13/2020

Last Modified11/21/2024

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

fedoraproject:fedoratrustedcomputinggroup:trousers

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-59

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/14/1(cve@mitre.org)

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164472(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SSDL7COIFCZQMUBNAASNMKMX7W5JUHRD/(cve@mitre.org)

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q2/att-135/tcsd_fixes.patch(cve@mitre.org)

https://sourceforge.net/p/trousers/mailman/message/37015817/(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/14/1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164472(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SSDL7COIFCZQMUBNAASNMKMX7W5JUHRD/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q2/att-135/tcsd_fixes.patch(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://sourceforge.net/p/trousers/mailman/message/37015817/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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