Back
CVE-2020-24331
An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14. If the tcsd daemon is started with root privileges, the tss user still has read and…
High7.8EPSS 0.49%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14. If the tcsd daemon is started with root privileges, the tss user still has read and write access to the /etc/tcsd.conf file (which contains various settings related to this daemon).
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.49% · top 58% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
Loading the EPSS history…
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- https://sourceforge.net/p/trousers/mailman/message/37015817/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164472 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q2/att-135/tcsd_fixes.patch (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20200814 Re: [TrouSerS-tech] Multiple Security Issues in the TrouSerS tpm1.2 tscd Daemon (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-ab3dace708 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Badge for a README or a ticket
[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2020-24331)Record last updated .