Link Following Affecting trousers package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-TROUSERS-2005666
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed13 Aug 2020

Introduced: 13 Aug 2020

CVE-2020-24332  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 trousers.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream trousers package and not the trousers package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

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