CVE-2019-18898 (GCVE-0-2019-18898)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-01-23 14:05 – Updated: 2024-09-16 18:24
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
trousers: Local privilege escalation from tss to root
Summary
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.
Severity
7.7 (High)
CWE
- CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157651 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SUSE | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 |
Affected:
trousers , < 0.3.14-6.3.1
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| openSUSE | Factory |
Affected:
trousers , < 0.3.14-7.1
(custom)
|
guessed |
Date Public
2019-11-26 00:00
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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