CVE-2020-24332 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2020-24332?

CVE-2020-24332 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 13 Aug 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14. If the tcsd daemon is started with root privileges, the creation of the system.data file is prone to symlink attacks. The tss user can be used to create or corrupt existing files, which could possibly lead to a DoS attack.

Weakness: CWE-59

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-24332?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Trustedcomputinggroup Trousers.

How do I fix CVE-2020-24332?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2020-24332 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-24332 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-6927, DEBIAN-CVE-2020-24332, GHSA-46r6-q3g6-pccf, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-24332.