Is CVE-2020-24330 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2020-24330 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2020-24330?

CVE-2020-24330 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2020-24330?

CVE-2020-24330 has an EPSS score of 0.49% (38th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2020-24330?

Upgrade trousers on debian 12 to 0.3.15-0.1 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2020-24330

HIGH

7.8

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14. If the tcsd daemon is started with root privileges instead of by the tss user, it fails to drop the root gid privilege when no longer needed.

CWE-269Improper Privilege Management

How to fix

Remediation Available

trousersDebian

Fixed in:0.3.15-0.1CVE-2020-24330

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorLocal

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredLow

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

0.49%probability of exploitation in 30 days

38thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 38% of all known CVEs.

References

Patch1

seclists.org

Exploit3

Other references1

lists.fedoraproject.org

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management) vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2017-12635	Critical	9.8	100%	-	Fix
CVE-2022-24637	Critical	9.8	99%	-	Fix
CVE-2017-5689	Critical	9.8	92%	KEV	Fix
CVE-2020-3243	Critical	9.8	88%	-	-
CVE-2024-21888	High	8.8	87%	-	-
CVE-2022-0441	Critical	9.8	85%	-	Fix

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.