CVE-2019-18897

Local privilege escalation from user salt to root

State: Published
Severity: 8.4 High
Published: Mar 2, 2020
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Nov 12, 2019

Description

A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the packaging of salt of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15; openSUSE Factory allows local attackers to escalate privileges from user salt to root. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 salt-master version 2019.2.0-46.83.1 and prior versions. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 salt-master version 2019.2.0-6.21.1 and prior versions. openSUSE Factory salt-master version 2019.2.2-3.1 and prior versions.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.4 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	suse

Weaknesses

CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12SUSE	salt-master through 2019.2.0-46.83.1Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15SUSE	salt-master through 2019.2.0-6.21.1Affected
FactoryopenSUSE	salt-master through 2019.2.2-3.1Affected

References

openSUSE-SU-2020:0357vendor-advisory
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157465

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