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CVE-2019-20384

Safety vulnerability ID: 70506

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Created at Jan 21, 2020 Updated at Jan 22, 2025
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Advisory

Gentoo Portage through 2.3.84 allows local users to place a Trojan horse plugin in the /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins directory by leveraging access to the nagios user account, because this directory is writable in between a call to emake and a call to fowners.

Affected package

portage

Latest version: 3.0.67

Portage is the package management and distribution system for Gentoo

Affected versions

Fixed versions

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Severity Details

CVSS Base Score

MEDIUM 5.5

CVSS v3 Details

MEDIUM 5.5
Attack Vector (AV)
LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC)
LOW
Privileges Required (PR)
LOW
User Interaction (UI)
NONE
Scope (S)
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact (C)
NONE
Integrity Impact (I)
HIGH
Availability Availability (A)
NONE

CVSS v2 Details

LOW 2.1
Access Vector (AV)
LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC)
LOW
Authentication (Au)
NONE
Confidentiality Impact (C)
NONE
Integrity Impact (I)
PARTIAL
Availability Impact (A)
NONE