CVE-2020-36657

Publication date

2023-01-25 00:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

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.