CVE-2020-36394

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-36394
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-06-22 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-06-29 19:25:00 UTC
Descriptionpam_setquota.c in the pam_setquota module before 2020-05-29 for Linux-PAM allows local attackers to set their quota on an arbitrary filesystem, in certain situations where the attacker's home directory is a FUSE filesystem mounted under /home.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Pam Setquota Project Pam Setquota All All All All

References

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oss-sec: linux-pam: pam_setquota.so vulnerability facilitated through fusermount setuid-root program MISC seclists.org
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