Vulnerability CVE-2020-24332


Published: 2020-08-13

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.

Type:

CWE-59

(Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following'))

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.9/10
6.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Trustedcomputinggroup -> Trousers 

 References:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/14/1
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164472
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q2/att-135/tcsd_fixes.patch
https://sourceforge.net/p/trousers/mailman/message/37015817/

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