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CVE-2019-3698

nagios cron job allows privilege escalation from user nagios to root

MEDIUM 5.7

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.68 % · percentile 52 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
suse
NVD status
Modified

Description

UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the cronjob shipped with nagios of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11; openSUSE Factory allows local attackers to cause cause DoS or potentially escalate privileges by winning a race. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 nagios version 3.5.1-5.27 and prior versions. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 nagios version 3.0.6-1.25.36.3.1 and prior versions. openSUSE Factory nagios version 4.4.5-2.1 and prior versions.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-59 — Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Lsuse
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:LNVD · meissner@suse.de (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.9AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:CNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
SUSE · SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12affected nagios ≤ 3.5.1-5.27
SUSE · SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11affected nagios ≤ 3.0.6-1.25.36.3.1
openSUSE · Factoryaffected nagios ≤ 4.4.5-2.1

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD