Information Exposure Affecting trousers package, versions [0,0.3.14)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TROUSERS-2380677
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Aug 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Aug 2020

CVE-2020-24330  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-732  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade trousers to version 0.3.14 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. 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 Scores

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