# CVE-2020-24331: An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-08-13 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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).

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## References

- https://sourceforge.net/p/trousers/mailman/message/37015817/
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164472
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q2/att-135/tcsd_fixes.patch
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/14/1
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SSDL7COIFCZQMUBNAASNMKMX7W5JUHRD/

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