CVE-2020-24332

trousers: tss user can be used to create or corrupt existing files, this could lead to DoS

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · August 13, 2020

Updated · June 27, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14. If the tcsd daemon is started with root privileges, the creation of the system.data file is prone to symlink attacks. The tss user can be used to create or corrupt existing files, which could possibly lead to a DoS attack.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-59 · Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')