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Gentoo Portage through 2.3.84 allows local users to place...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 4, 2024

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

Gentoo Portage through 2.3.84 allows local users to place a Trojan horse plugin in the /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins directory by leveraging access to the nagios user account, because this directory is writable in between a call to emake and a call to fowners.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 21, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Apr 4, 2024

Severity

Moderate
5.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-20384

GHSA ID

GHSA-fj76-6r22-qfgv

Source code

No known source code

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