CVE-2021-25321

arpwatch: Local privilege escalation from runtime user to root

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Jun 30, 2021
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Jan 19, 2021

Description

A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in arpwatch of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSS, SUSE Manager Server 4.0, SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9; openSUSE Factory, Leap 15.2 allows local attackers with control of the runtime user to run arpwatch as to escalate to root upon the next restart of arpwatch. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSS arpwatch versions prior to 2.1a15. SUSE Manager Server 4.0 arpwatch versions prior to 2.1a15. SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 arpwatch versions prior to 2.1a15. openSUSE Factory arpwatch version 2.1a15-169.5 and prior versions. openSUSE Leap 15.2 arpwatch version 2.1a15-lp152.5.5 and prior versions.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	suse

Weaknesses

CWE-61 UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following

Affected Products

Product	Versions
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4-LTSSSUSE	arpwatch to before 2.1a15Affected
SUSE Manager Server 4.0SUSE	arpwatch to before 2.1a15Affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9SUSE	arpwatch to before 2.1a15Affected
FactoryopenSUSE	arpwatch through 2.1a15-169.5Affected
Leap 15.2openSUSE	arpwatch through 2.1a15-lp152.5.5Affected

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186240

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