CVE-2019-20384

MEDIUM

Gentoo Portage < 2.3.84 - Race Condition

Title source: rule

Description

Gentoo Portage through 2.3.84 allows local users to place a Trojan horse plugin in the /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins directory by leveraging access to the nagios user account, because this directory is writable in between a call to emake and a call to fowners.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0009
EPSS Percentile 25.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Classification

CWE
CWE-362
Status published

Affected Products (1)

gentoo/portage < 2.3.84

Timeline

Published Jan 21, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026