CVE-2020-24330: fedoraproject fedora Improper Privilege Management

Modified

AliasesSUSE-SU-2022:2798-1SUSE-SU-2022:2800-1UBUNTU-CVE-2020-24330+1 more

Published 13-08-2020Last modified 04-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2020-24330 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 0.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 40.9% of scored vulnerabilities. 3 public exploits are recorded.

Overall risk

41/100

0100

Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?

CVSS score

7.8/10

010

High · v3.1 (NVD)

EPSS score

0.49%

0%100%

Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days

KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.

RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.

Public exploits3reference

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2

MGASA-2021-0297 RHSA-2021:1627

Timeline

13-08-2020
PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
04-08-2024
Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

An 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.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

v3.17.8v2.07.2

EPSS trend

Probability

0.49%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

41%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.49% on 22-09-2026

22-09-202622-10-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

3 found

referenceUnverified
Exploit Reference (sourceforge.net)
Maturity: unknown
referenceUnverified
Exploit Reference (bugzilla.suse.com)
Maturity: unknown
referenceUnverified
Exploit Reference (openwall.com)
Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

CWE-269Improper Privilege ManagementThe product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

Affected systems

Suse5 products

trousers&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS< 0.3.14-150000.3.3.1
trousers&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS< 0.3.14-150000.3.3.1
trousers&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL< 0.3.13-3.3.1
trousers&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS< 0.3.14-150000.3.3.1
trousers&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15< 0.3.14-150000.3.3.1

Debian1 product