Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Jan 15, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-36770
CVE-2020-36770
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.
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Affected products
2- Gentoo/Slurmdescription
Patches
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References
1- bugs.gentoo.org/631552nvdExploitIssue TrackingPatch
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