CVE-2019-3696

pcp: Local privilege escalation from user pcp to root through migrate_tempdirs

State: Published
Severity: 8.4 High
Published: Mar 3, 2020
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Jan 3, 2019

Description

A Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory vulnerability in the packaging of pcp of SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15, SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15-SP1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Open Buildservice Development Tools 15, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15, SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP5; openSUSE Leap 15.1 allows local user pcp to overwrite arbitrary files with arbitrary content. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS pcp versions prior to 3.11.9-5.8.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS pcp versions prior to 3.11.9-5.8.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 pcp versions prior to 3.11.9-5.8.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15-SP1 pcp versions prior to 4.3.1-3.5.3. SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Open Buildservice Development Tools 15 pcp versions prior to 3.11.9-5.8.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS pcp versions prior to 3.11.9-5.8.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15 pcp versions prior to 3.11.9-5.8.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4 pcp versions prior to 3.11.9-6.14.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP5 pcp versions prior to 3.11.9-6.14.1. openSUSE Leap 15.1 pcp versions prior to 4.3.1-lp151.2.3.1.

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-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

Affected Products

Product	Versions
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOSSUSE	pcp to before 3.11.9-5.8.1Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSSSUSE	pcp to before 3.11.9-5.8.1Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15SUSE	pcp to before 3.11.9-5.8.1Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15-SP1SUSE	pcp to before 4.3.1-3.5.3Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Open Buildservice Development Tools 15SUSE	pcp to before 3.11.9-5.8.1Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSSSUSE	pcp to before 3.11.9-5.8.1Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15SUSE	pcp to before 3.11.9-5.8.1Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4SUSE	pcp to before 3.11.9-6.14.1Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP5SUSE	pcp to before 3.11.9-6.14.1Affected
openSUSE Leap 15.1openSUSE	pcp to before 4.3.1-lp151.2.3.1Affected

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1153921

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