CVE-2020-36657
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-36657
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-36657.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-36657
- Downstream
- Published
- 2023-01-26T21:15:21.893Z
- Modified
- 2025-11-14T11:07:34.111821Z
- Severity
-
- 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
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.
- References
Affected packages
Git / github.com/rpodgorny/uptimed
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/rpodgorny/uptimed
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed