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CVE-2020-36770

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-01-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-732

Description

pkg_postinst in the Gentoo ebuild for Slurm through 22.05.3 unnecessarily calls chown to assign root's ownership on files in the live root filesystem. This could be exploited by the slurm user to become the owner of root-owned files.

Affected products

• gentoo Ebuild For Slurm: through 22.05.3

References

• https://bugs.gentoo.org/631552
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/631552

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