CVE-2020-24330 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in TrouSerS through version 0.3.14, affecting Fedora and TrouSerS Project distributions. If the tcsd daemon is initialized with root privileges instead of the intended tss user, it fails to properly relinquish its root group ID, leading to persistent elevated privileges. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, potentially resulting in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.3.14CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:trousers_project:trousers:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
33CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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trousers: fails to drop the root gid privilege when no longer needed
Sep 2, 2020An 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.
Aug 11, 2020