Medium
Security advisory
Missing initialization of a variable in the TPM2 source may allow a privileged user to potentially enable an escalation of privilege via local access. This affects tpm2-tss before 3.0.1 and before 2.4.3.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-24455
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:06 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Missing initialization of a variable in the TPM2 source may allow a privileged user to potentially enable an escalation of privilege via local access. This affects tpm2-tss before 3.0.1 and before 2.4.3.
osv:CVE-2020-24455
Complete source record
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"references": [
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"https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-tss/releases/tag/2.4.3",
"https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-tss/releases/tag/3.0.1",
"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-10",
"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902167"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2021-02-26T03:15:12.213+00:00"
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