CVE-2020-24331

trousers: tss user still has read and write access to the /etc/tcsd.conf file if tcsd is started as root

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.8

CVSS 3.1

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Published · August 13, 2020

Updated · January 14, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14. If the tcsd daemon is started with root privileges, the tss user still has read and write access to the /etc/tcsd.conf file (which contains various settings related to this daemon).

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE not specified