Privilege escalation in Trousers Project
CVE-2020-24330
An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14. If the tcsd daemon is started with root privileges instead of by the tss user, it fails to drop the root gid privilege when no longer needed.
Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation
EPSS: 0.005 (39.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
Affected products
- Trousers_project Trousers
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 33
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_FEDORA, vendor-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2020-24330?
- CVE-2020-24330 is a high-severity vulnerability in Trousers Project, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2020-08-13.
- How severe is CVE-2020-24330?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2020-24330 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.