CVE-2020-24331 Information

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).

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/14/1 https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164472 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SSDL7COIFCZQMUBNAASNMKMX7W5JUHRD/ https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q2/att-135/tcsd_fixes.patch https://sourceforge.net/p/trousers/mailman/message/37015817/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8