High severity · published Jan 23, 2020
CVE-2019-3691
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…
7.8
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 44% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MU
Munge · Opensuse
before 0.5.13-4.3.1; before 0.5.13-6.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3691
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-3691
Exploit
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155075
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