CVE-2020-36657

HIGH

uptimed <0.4.6-r1 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

uptimed before 0.4.6-r1 on Gentoo allows local users (with access to the uptimed user account) to gain root privileges by creating a hard link within the /var/spool/uptimed directory, because there is an unsafe chown -R call.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-14
Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.gentoo.org/630810

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0041
EPSS Percentile 32.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-59
Status published
Products (1)
uptimed_project/uptimed < 0.4.6
Published Jan 26, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026