CVE-2019-3693

HIGH

SUSE mailman < 2.1.15-9.6.15.1 - Privilege Escalation via Symlink Following

Title source: llm

Description

A symlink following vulnerability in the packaging of mailman in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12; openSUSE Leap 15.1 allowed local attackers to escalate their privileges from user wwwrun to root. Additionally arbitrary files could be changed to group mailman. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 mailman versions prior to 2.1.15-9.6.15.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 mailman versions prior to 2.1.17-3.11.1. openSUSE Leap 15.1 mailman version 2.1.29-lp151.2.14 and prior versions.

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Mailing List, Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00059.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-02/msg00000.html

Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1154328

Scores

CVSS v3 7.7

EPSS 0.0017

EPSS Percentile 37.6%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE

CWE-59

Status published

Products (2)

opensuse/backports_sle 15.0 sp1

suse/mailman < 2.1.15-9.6.15.1

Published Jan 24, 2020

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026