CVE-2020-36770

Published Jan 15, 2024

Last updated 10 months ago

CVSS critical 9.8

Overview

Description: pkg_postinst in the Gentoo ebuild for Slurm through 22.05.3 unnecessarily calls chown to assign root's ownership on files in the live root filesystem. This could be exploited by the slurm user to become the owner of root-owned files.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 9.8
Impact score: 5.9
Exploitability score: 3.9
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity: CRITICAL

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-noinfo

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:gentoo:ebuild_for_slurm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "040141F1-CE3B-4E03-8286-A90A768AE613",
            "versionEndIncluding": "22.05.3"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References