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CVE-2020-24330

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-08-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

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.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 33
• Trousers Project Trousers: through 0.3.14

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/14/1
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164472
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SSDL7COIFCZQMUBNAASNMKMX7W5JUHRD/
• https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q2/att-135/tcsd_fixes.patch
• https://sourceforge.net/p/trousers/mailman/message/37015817/
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/14/1
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164472
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SSDL7COIFCZQMUBNAASNMKMX7W5JUHRD/
• https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q2/att-135/tcsd_fixes.patch
• https://sourceforge.net/p/trousers/mailman/message/37015817/

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