CVE-2019-3691

Local privilege escalation from user munge to root

State: Published
Severity: 7.7 High
Published: Jan 23, 2020
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Jan 3, 2019

Description

A Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the packaging of munge in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15; openSUSE Factory allowed local attackers to escalate privileges from user munge to root. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 munge versions prior to 0.5.13-4.3.1. openSUSE Factory munge versions prior to 0.5.13-6.1.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.7 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N	suse

Weaknesses

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

Affected Products

Product	Versions
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15SUSE	munge to before 0.5.13-4.3.1Affected
FactoryopenSUSE	munge to before 0.5.13-6.1Affected

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155075

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