Advisory details:
pypa / portage/PYSEC-2024-10
| Advisory ID | pypa/portage/PYSEC-2024-10 |
| Aliases |
CVE-2016-20021
GHSA-pw5x-x5jw-ccmh PYSEC-2024-10 |
| Summary | In Gentoo Portage before 3.0.47, there is missing PGP validation of executed code: the standalone emerge-webrsync downloads a .gpgsig file but does not perform signature verification. Unless emerge-webrsync is used, Portage is not vulnerable. |
| Status | Published |
| Exploitability | 0.5 |
| Weighted Severity | 8.8 |
| Risk | 4.4 |
| Affected and Fixed Packages | Package Details |
| Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches | Package Commit Patches Details |
| There are no known CWE. |
| System | Score | Found at |
|---|---|---|
| cvssv3.1 | 9.8 | https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/portage/PYSEC-2024-10.yaml |
| Reference id | Reference type | URL |
|---|---|---|
| https://bugs.gentoo.org/597800 | ||
| https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/tree/NEWS | ||
| https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage | ||
| GHSA-pw5x-x5jw-ccmh | https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pw5x-x5jw-ccmh |
No EPSS data available for this advisory.
| Patch URL | |
|---|---|
| There are no known patches. | |
| Attack Vector (AV) | Attack Complexity (AC) | Privileges Required (PR) | User Interaction (UI) | Scope (S) | Confidentiality Impact (C) | Integrity Impact (I) | Availability Impact (A) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
network adjacent_network local physical |
low high |
none low high |
none required |
unchanged changed |
high low none |
high low none |
high low none |
Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-05-09T23:34:49Z/
Decision: Track
Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2016/20xxx/CVE-2016-20021.json
Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2016-20021
[{'Exploitation': 'none'},
{'Automatable': 'yes'},
{'Technical Impact': 'total'},
{'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
{'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
{'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]