CVE-2020-24330

trousers: fails to drop the root gid privilege when no longer needed

Published Aug 13, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 7.8 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-17064 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 3:12 PM
Reserved
Aug 13, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Aug 13, 2020, 5:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:05 AM
Severity
Low
Public date
Sep 2, 2020, 12:00 AM