CVE-2021-25314

HIGH

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability <15-SP2 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

A Creation of Temporary File With Insecure Permissions vulnerability in hawk2 of SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 12-SP3, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 12-SP5, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 15-SP2 allows local attackers to escalate to root. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 12-SP3 hawk2 versions prior to 2.6.3+git.1614685906.812c31e9. SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 12-SP5 hawk2 versions prior to 2.6.3+git.1614685906.812c31e9. SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 15-SP2 hawk2 versions prior to 2.6.3+git.1614684118.af555ad9.

References (1)

[Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory] https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182166

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0003

EPSS Percentile 7.7%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-378 CWE-668

Status published

Affected Products (1)

suse/hawk2 < 2.6.3\+git.1614685906.812c31e9-2.42.1

Timeline

Published Apr 14, 2021

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026