CVE-2018-19636

Local root exploit via inclusion of attacker controlled shell script

State: Published
Severity: 7.3 High
Published: Mar 5, 2019
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Nov 28, 2018

Description

Supportutils, before version 3.1-5.7.1, when run with command line argument -A searched the file system for a ndspath binary. If an attacker provides one at an arbitrary location it is executed with root privileges

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	7.3 High	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	microfocus

Weaknesses

CWE-306

Affected Products

Product	Versions
supportutilsSUSE	before 3.1-5.7.1Affected

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1117751
openSUSE-SU-2019:1351vendor-advisory

Every record here comes from the CVE Program’s CVE List. © 1999–2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. The records are reproduced under the CVE Program terms of use.