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RHSA-2020:5434 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: targetcli security update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 7

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · December 16, 2020

Updated · November 22, 2025

Topic

An update for targetcli is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The targetcli package contains an administration shell for configuring Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and other SCSI targets, using the Target Core Mod/Linux-IO (TCM/LIO) kernel target subsystem. FCoE users also need to install and use the fcoe-utils package.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: targetcli (2.1.53). (BZ#1853645)

Security Fix(es):

  • targetcli: weak permissions for /etc/target and backup files (CVE-2020-13867)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2020:5434 — Red Hat Security Advisory: targetcli security update | PulseLinux