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trousers — security advisory
An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14. If the tcsd daemon is started with root privileges, the creation of the system.data file is prone to symlink attacks. The tss user can be used to create or corrupt existing files, which could possibly lead to a DoS attack.
- Products
- trousers
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 0.3.15-0.1
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-24332
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 13:29 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14. If the tcsd daemon is started with root privileges, the creation of the system.data file is prone to symlink attacks. The tss user can be used to create or corrupt existing files, which could possibly lead to a DoS attack.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-24332
trousers
Fixed versions: 0.3.15-0.1
trousers
Fixed versions: 0.3.15-0.1
trousers
Fixed versions: 0.3.15-0.1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-26T12:02:30.624401111Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 452394,
"published_at": "2020-08-13T17:15:13.58+00:00"
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