Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 25, 2023· Updated Apr 1, 2025
CVE-2020-36657
CVE-2020-36657
Description
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.
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Affected products
2- uptimed/uptimeddescription
- Range: <0.4.6-r1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
2- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-14mitrevendor-advisory
- bugs.gentoo.org/630810mitre
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