CVE-2019-20384

low-risk
Published 2020-01-21

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.

Do I need to act?

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0.09% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
5
CVSS 5.5/10 Medium
LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Portage

Affected Vendors

Gentoo

References (4)

Exploit http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/21/1
Exploit https://bugs.gentoo.org/692492
Exploit http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/21/1
Exploit https://bugs.gentoo.org/692492
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low-risk
Severity 18/34 · Moderate
Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal