What is CVE-2020-36770?

CVE-2020-36770 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Gentoo Ebuild For Slurm, classified under Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2024-01-15.

How severe is CVE-2020-36770?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Gentoo Ebuild For Slurm

CVE-2020-36770

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.

EPSS: 0.004 (29.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Gentoo Ebuild_for_slurm
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-732 — Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-36770?: CVE-2020-36770 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Gentoo Ebuild For Slurm, classified under Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2024-01-15.
How severe is CVE-2020-36770?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.