CVE-2020-36770

CRITICAL

Gentoo Slurm <22.05.3 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

pkg_postinst in the Gentoo ebuild for Slurm through 22.05.3 unnecessarily calls chown to assign root's ownership on files in the live root filesystem. This could be exploited by the slurm user to become the owner of root-owned files.

References (1)

[Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch] https://bugs.gentoo.org/631552

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8

EPSS 0.0005

EPSS Percentile 16.3%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-732

Status published

Affected Products (1)

gentoo/ebuild_for_slurm < 22.05.3

Timeline

Published Jan 15, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026