Vulnerability · Published Aug 13, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-24332
Medium 5.5
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the trousers package (AlmaLinux). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 46% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.
Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 53.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official 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.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux:8 | trousers | 0.3.15-1.el8 | ALSA-2021:1627 |
| AlmaLinux:8 | trousers-devel | 0.3.15-1.el8 | ALSA-2021:1627 |
| AlmaLinux:8 | trousers-lib | 0.3.15-1.el8 | ALSA-2021:1627 |
| Debian:12 | trousers | 0.3.15-0.1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2020-24332 |
| Debian:13 | trousers | 0.3.15-0.1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2020-24332 |
| Debian:14 | trousers | 0.3.15-0.1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2020-24332 |
| Rocky Linux:8 | trousers | 0:0.3.15-1.el8 | RLSA-2021:1627 |
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://sourceforge.net/p/trousers/mailman/message/37015817/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164472 x_refsource_MISC
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q2/att-135/tcsd_fixes.patch x_refsource_MISC
- [oss-security] 20200814 Re: [TrouSerS-tech] Multiple Security Issues in the TrouSerS tpm1.2 tscd Daemon mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
- FEDORA-2020-ab3dace708 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA