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By the Year

In 2025 there have been 0 vulnerabilities in Gentoo Portage. Last year, in 2024 Portage had 1 security vulnerability published. Right now, Portage is on track to have less security vulnerabilities in 2025 than it did last year.

Year Vulnerabilities Average Score
2025 0 0.00
2024 1 9.80
2023 0 0.00
2022 0 0.00
2021 0 0.00
2020 1 5.50

It may take a day or so for new Portage vulnerabilities to show up in the stats or in the list of recent security vulnerabilities. Additionally vulnerabilities may be tagged under a different product or component name.

Recent Gentoo Portage Security Vulnerabilities

Gentoo Portage<3.0.47: emerge-webrsync Missing PGP Validation
CVE-2016-20021 9.8 - Critical - January 12, 2024

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.

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

Gentoo Portage through 2.3.84
CVE-2019-20384 5.5 - Medium - January 21, 2020

Gentoo Portage through 2.3.84 allows local users to place a Trojan horse plugin in the /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins directory by leveraging access to the nagios user account, because this directory is writable in between a call to emake and a call to fowners.

Improper Preservation of Permissions

Portage before 2.0.50-r3
CVE-2004-1901 5.5 - Medium - December 31, 2004

Portage before 2.0.50-r3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a hard link attack on the lockfiles.

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