CVE-2020-24331
HIGHTrouSerS < 0.3.14 - Improper Privilege Management in tcsd.conf
Title source: llmDescription
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).
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://sourceforge.net/p/trousers/mailman/message/37015817/
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164472
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q2/att-135/tcsd_fixes.patch
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/14/1
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SSDL7COIFCZQMUBNAASNMKMX7W5JUHRD/
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0049
EPSS Percentile
38.2%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-269
Status
published
Products (2)
fedoraproject/fedora
33
trousers_project/trousers
< 0.3.14
Published
Aug 13, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026