Vulnerability in Timeshift allowing privilege escalation
A vulnerability (CVE-2020-10174) has been identified in the Timeshift application that allows a local user to execute code with root permissions. Timeshift is a backup system that uses rsync with hard link creation or Btrfs snapshots to provide functionality similar to System Restore in Windows and Time Machine in macOS. The program is included in the repositories of many distributions and is used by default in PCLinuxOS […]
