CVE-2019-3699

Local privilege escalation from user privoxy to root

State: Published
Severity: 7.7 High
Published: Jan 24, 2020
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Jan 3, 2019

Description

UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the packaging of privoxy on openSUSE Leap 15.1, Factory allows local attackers to escalate from user privoxy to root. This issue affects: openSUSE Leap 15.1 privoxy version 3.0.28-lp151.1.1 and prior versions. openSUSE Factory privoxy version 3.0.28-2.1 and prior versions.

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
Leap 15.1openSUSE	privoxy through 3.0.28-lp151.1.1Affected
FactoryopenSUSE	privoxy through 3.0.28-2.1Affected

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157449

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