CVE-2020-36770

2024-01-1500:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

gentoo

slurm

ebuild

exploit

ownership

files

vulnerability

AI Score

9.4

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

40.0%

JSON

pkg_postinst in the Gentoo ebuild for Slurm through 22.05.3 unnecessarily calls chown to assign root’s ownership on files in the live root filesystem. This could be exploited by the slurm user to become the owner of root-owned files.

References

bugs.gentoo.org/631552