CVE-2019-3698 - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Nagios	Nagios
Opensuse	Backports Sle Leap
Suse	Linux Enterprise Server

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:12:-:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

AND

cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:11:-:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 3 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:opensuse:backports_sle:15.0:sp1::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:::::::*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00014.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00022.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1156309

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: suse

Published: 2020-02-28T13:20:14.152354Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T16:33:41.138Z

Reserved: 2019-01-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-3698

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-02-28T14:15:09.687

Modified: 2021-09-14T12:39:50.403

Link: CVE-2019-3698

Redhat

No data.

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