CVE-2020-24330
trousers: fails to drop the root gid privilege when no longer needed
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Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · September 2, 2020
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
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 score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-271 · Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors