CVE-2020-36657

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=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
Downstream
Published
2023-01-26T21:15:21.893Z
Modified
2026-04-10T04:27:16.891937Z
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
ad909e4dd67e60e4e6f359fa80f1f26e273a06c5
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "0.4.6"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.3.17
v0.3.18
v0.4.0
v0.4.1
v0.4.2
v0.4.3
v0.4.4
v0.4.5

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-36657.json"