CVE-2020-36657

Summary

CVECVE-2020-36657
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-01-26 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-05-03 12:15:00 UTC
Descriptionuptimed before 0.4.6-r1 on Gentoo allows local users (with access to the uptimed user account) to gain root privileges by creating a hard link within the /var/spool/uptimed directory, because there is an unsafe chown -R call.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Uptimed Project Uptimed All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
630810 – (CVE-2020-36657) <app-misc/uptimed-0.4.6-r1: root privilege escalation via "chown -R" in pkg_postinst MISC bugs.gentoo.org
uptimed: Root Privilege Escalation (GLSA 202305-14) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 710712 Gentoo Linux uptimed Root Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (GLSA 202305-14)

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