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CVE-2020-15113 (GCVE-0-2020-15113)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-08-05 19:30 – Updated: 2024-08-04 13:08
VLAI
Title
Improper Preservation of Permissions in etcd
Summary
In etcd before versions 3.3.23 and 3.4.10, certain directory paths are created (etcd data directory and the directory path when provided to automatically generate self-signed certificates for TLS connections with clients) with restricted access permissions (700) by using the os.MkdirAll. This function does not perform any permission checks when a given directory path exists already. A possible workaround is to ensure the directories have the desired permission (700).
Severity
5.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-281 - {"CWE-281":"Improper Preservation of Permissions"}
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
etcd-io etcd Affected: < 3.3.23
Affected: < 3.4.10
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