VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-36770

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability0.37%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2024-01-15
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Primary references