CVE-2019-3690

MEDIUM

openSUSE Leap - Privilege Escalation via Symlink Following in chkstat

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The chkstat tool in the permissions package followed symlinks before commit a9e1d26cd49ef9ee0c2060c859321128a6dd4230 (please also check the additional hardenings after this fix). This allowed local attackers with control over a path that is traversed by chkstat to escalate privileges.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00024.html
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150734

Scores

CVSS v3 6.8
EPSS 0.0010
EPSS Percentile 27.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-59
Status published
Products (1)
opensuse/leap 15.1
Published Dec 05, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026