CVE-2020-24331

HIGH

TrouSerS < 0.3.14 - Improper Privilege Management in tcsd.conf

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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).

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

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