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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202305-14">
<title>uptimed: Root Privilege Escalation</title>
<synopsis>A vulnerability has been discovered in uptimed which could result in root privilege escalation.</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">uptimed</product>
<announced>2023-05-03</announced>
<revised count="1">2023-05-03</revised>
<bug>630810</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="app-misc/uptimed" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">0.4.6-r1</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">0.4.6-r1</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>uptimed is a system uptime record daemon that keeps track of your highest uptimes.</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>Via unnecessary file ownership modifications in the pkg_postinst ebuild phase, the uptimed user could change arbitrary files to be owned by the uptimed user at emerge-time.</p>
</description>
<impact type="high">
<p>The uptimed user could achieve root privileges when the uptimed package is emerged.</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All uptimed users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-misc/uptimed-0.4.6-r1"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36657">CVE-2020-36657</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2023-05-03T10:03:26.877508Z">ajak</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2023-05-03T10:03:26.880820Z">sam</metadata>
</glsa>
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