{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2020-08-19T17:10:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "chrony: Insecure writing to PID file",
    "id" : "1870298",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1870298"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.1",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L",
    "status" : "draft"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-59->CWE-22",
  "details" : [ "A flaw was found in chrony versions before 3.5.1 when creating the PID file under the /var/run/chrony folder. The file is created during chronyd startup while still running as the root user, and when it's opened for writing, chronyd does not check for an existing symbolic link with the same file name. This flaw allows an attacker with privileged access to create a symlink with the default PID file name pointing to any destination file in the system, resulting in data loss and a denial of service due to the path traversal.", "A flaw was found in chrony when creating the PID file under the /var/run/chrony folder. The file is created during chronyd startup while still running as the root user, and when it's opened for writing, chronyd does not check for an existing symbolic link with the same file name. This flaw allows an attacker with privileged access to create a symlink with the default PID file name pointing to any destination file in the system, resulting in data loss and a denial of service due to the path traversal." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Matthias Gerstner (Suse) for reporting this issue.",
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "chrony",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "chrony",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "chrony",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14367\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-14367" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2020-14367",
  "csaw" : false
}