An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14. If the tcsd daemon is started with root privileges, the tss user still has read and write access to the /etc/tcsd.conf file (which contains various settings related to this daemon).
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q2/att-135/tcsd_fixes.patch
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SSDL7COIFCZQMUBNAASNMKMX7W5JUHRD/
https://sourceforge.net/p/trousers/mailman/message/37015817/
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164472
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/14/1
Source: Mitre, NVD
Published: 2020-08-13
Updated: 2024-11-21
Base Score: 7.2
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Severity: High
Base Score: 7.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS: 0.00066