CVE-2020-36770

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 9.8 Critical

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2024-01-15

Last modified

2025-06-20

Weaknesses

CWE-732

Affected products

• Ebuild For Slurm (Gentoo)

References

• https://bugs.gentoo.org/631552