{"id":"CVE-2019-3688","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-3688","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T22:24:31.967Z","title":"This allowed an attacker that compromissed the squid user to gain persistence by changing the binary","description":"The /usr/sbin/pinger binary packaged with squid in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 before and including version 4.8-5.8.1 and in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 before and including 3.5.21-26.17.1 had squid:root, 0750 permissions. This allowed an attacker that compromissed the squid user to gain persistence by changing the binary","published":"2019-10-07T14:15:12.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:35:23.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"meissner@suse.de","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-276"],"affected":["suse/suse linux enterprise server"],"epss":{"score":0.00336,"percentile":0.26752,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.34%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00053.html","source":"meissner@suse.de"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00056.html","source":"meissner@suse.de"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00024.html","source":"meissner@suse.de"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1093414","tags":["Issue Tracking","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"meissner@suse.de"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00053.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00056.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00024.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1093414","tags":["Issue Tracking","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3688","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}