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

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-36657

Published

2023-01-26T21:15:21.893Z

Modified

2026-07-08T20:29:26.032656Z

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

Fixed

ad909e4dd67e60e4e6f359fa80f1f26e273a06c5

Database specific

{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:uptimed_project:uptimed:*:*:*:*:*:gentoo:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "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"