{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2020-24331","details":"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).","modified":"2026-04-22T12:35:00.736039Z","published":"2020-08-13T17:15:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2020-24331"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-24331"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/14/1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q2/att-135/tcsd_fixes.patch"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://sourceforge.net/p/trousers/mailman/message/37015817/"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-24331"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"trousers","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/trousers@0.3.13-4?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["0.3.13-4"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"0.3.13-4","binary_name":"libtspi1"},{"binary_name":"trousers","binary_version":"0.3.13-4"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2020/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-24331.json"}},{"package":{"name":"trousers","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:18.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/trousers@0.3.14+fixed1-1build1?arch=source&distro=bionic"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["0.3.14+fixed1-1","0.3.14+fixed1-1build1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"libtspi1","binary_version":"0.3.14+fixed1-1build1"},{"binary_name":"trousers","binary_version":"0.3.14+fixed1-1build1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2020/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-24331.json"}},{"package":{"name":"trousers","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:20.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/trousers@0.3.14+fixed1-1build1?arch=source&distro=focal"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["0.3.14+fixed1-1build1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"libtspi1","binary_version":"0.3.14+fixed1-1build1"},{"binary_name":"trousers","binary_version":"0.3.14+fixed1-1build1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2020/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-24331.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"negligible"}]}