CVE-2020-36657

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36657
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-36657.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-36657
Related
Published
2023-01-26T21:15:21Z
Modified
2025-04-01T22:47:44.402220Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

uptimed before 0.4.6-r1 on Gentoo allows local users (with access to the uptimed user account) to gain root privileges by creating a hard link within the /var/spool/uptimed directory, because there is an unsafe chown -R call.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/rpodgorny/uptimed

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/rpodgorny/uptimed
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed

Affected versions

v0.*

v0.3.10
v0.3.11
v0.3.12
v0.3.13
v0.3.14
v0.3.15
v0.3.16
v0.3.17
v0.3.18
v0.3.3
v0.3.4
v0.3.5
v0.3.6
v0.3.7
v0.3.8
v0.3.9
v0.4.0
v0.4.1
v0.4.2
v0.4.3
v0.4.4
v0.4.5