SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-18898

UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the trousers package of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1; openSUSE Factory allowed local attackers escalate privileges from user tss to root.

HIGH 7.8EPSS 0.48%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.48%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the trousers package of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1; openSUSE Factory allowed local attackers escalate privileges from user tss to root. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 trousers versions prior to 0.3.14-6.3.1. openSUSE Factory trousers versions prior to 0.3.14-7.1.

CVSS 3.1
7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.48% probability · 40th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-59
Affected
suse/trousers · opensuse/leap
Source
meissner@suse.de

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.