Medium severity · published Aug 13, 2020
CVE-2020-24332
An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14
5.5
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14. If the tcsd daemon is started with root privileges, the creation of the system.data file is prone to symlink attacks. The tss user can be used to create or corrupt existing files, which could possibly lead to a DoS attack.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 46% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
33 · source: NVD
TR
Trousers · Trustedcomputinggroup
through 0.3.14 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-24332
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-24332
Exploit
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/14/1
Exploit
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164472
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SSDL7COIFCZQMUBNAASNMKMX7W5JUHRD/
Mailing List
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q2/att-135/tcsd_fixes.patch
Exploit
https://sourceforge.net/p/trousers/mailman/message/37015817/
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