What is CVE-2019-20384?

CVE-2019-20384 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gentoo Portage, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2020-01-21.

How severe is CVE-2019-20384?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Gentoo Portage

CVE-2019-20384

Gentoo Portage through 2.3.84 allows local users to place a Trojan horse plugin in the /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins directory by leveraging access to the nagios user account, because this directory is writable in between a call to emake and a…

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

EPSS: 0.003 (18.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Gentoo Portage
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-362 — Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition)

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-20384?: CVE-2019-20384 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gentoo Portage, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2020-01-21.
How severe is CVE-2019-20384?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.