UBUNTU-CVE-2020-24331

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-24331
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2020/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-24331.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-24331
Upstream
Published
2020-08-13T17:15:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:48:40Z
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
  • Ubuntu - negligible
Summary
[none]
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).

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / trousers

Package

Name
trousers
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/trousers@0.3.13-4?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*

0.3.13-4

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libtspi-dev",
            "binary_version": "0.3.13-4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libtspi1",
            "binary_version": "0.3.13-4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "trousers",
            "binary_version": "0.3.13-4"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / trousers

Package

Name
trousers
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/trousers@0.3.14+fixed1-1build1?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*

0.3.14+fixed1-1
0.3.14+fixed1-1build1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libtspi-dev",
            "binary_version": "0.3.14+fixed1-1build1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libtspi1",
            "binary_version": "0.3.14+fixed1-1build1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "trousers",
            "binary_version": "0.3.14+fixed1-1build1"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS / trousers

Package

Name
trousers
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/trousers@0.3.14+fixed1-1build1?arch=source&distro=focal

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*

0.3.14+fixed1-1build1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libtspi-dev",
            "binary_version": "0.3.14+fixed1-1build1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libtspi1",
            "binary_version": "0.3.14+fixed1-1build1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "trousers",
            "binary_version": "0.3.14+fixed1-1build1"
        }
    ]
}