CVE-2020-8018

User owned /etc in SLES15-SP1-CHOST-BYOS

State: Published
Severity: 8.4 High
Published: May 4, 2020
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Jan 27, 2020

Description

A Incorrect Default Permissions vulnerability in the SLES15-SP1-CHOST-BYOS and SLES15-SP1-CAP-Deployment-BYOS images of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 allows local attackers with the UID 1000 to escalate to root due to a /etc directory owned by the user This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 SLES15-SP1-CAP-Deployment-BYOS version 1.0.1 and prior versions; SLES15-SP1-CHOST-BYOS versions prior to 1.0.3 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-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

Affected Products

Product	Versions
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1SUSE	SLES15-SP1-CAP-Deployment-BYOS through 1.0.1Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1SUSE	SLES15-SP1-CHOST-BYOS through 1.0.3Affected

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1163813

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