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CVE-2019-20384

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-01-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Gentoo Portage through 2.3.84 allows local users to place a Trojan horse plugin in the /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins directory by leveraging access to the nagios user account, because this directory is writable in between a call to emake and a call to fowners.

Affected products

• gentoo Portage: through 2.3.84

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/21/1
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/692492
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/21/1
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/692492

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