CVE-2020-36770 is a critical vulnerability affecting the Gentoo ebuild for Slurm through version 22.05.3, where the pkg_postinst script unnecessarily uses chown to assign root ownership to files in the live root filesystem. This flaw allows a Slurm user to become the owner of root-owned files, leading to a complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 22.05.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:ebuild_for_slurm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.