High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jan 26, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026

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

File Project/uptimedllm-create
Range: <0.4.6-r1
uptimed/uptimeddescription
Uptimed Project/Uptimed
cpe:2.3:a:uptimed_project:uptimed:*:*:*:*:*:gentoo:*:*
Range: <0.4.6

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

bugs.gentoo.org/630810nvdExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-14nvd

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