Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in sys-cluster/slurm - CVE-2020-36770

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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in sys-cluster/slurm - CVE-2020-36770

Published: September 25, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU97711
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-36770
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to pkg_postinst unnecessarily calls chown to assign root's ownership on files in the live root filesystem. A local user can obtain ownership over arbitrary files on the system.


Affected software

sys-cluster/slurm
Gentoo Linux

How to mitigate CVE-2020-36770

Install updates from vendor's website.

sys-cluster/slurm - update to 22.05.3

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