CVE-2019-18898CWE-59

trousers: Local privilege escalation from tss to root

High · published January 23, 2020

CVSS v3.1
7.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
40.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.7 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00482 · 40.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-59 · Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Published
2020-01-23T14:05Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 JAN 14:05Z
    trousers: Local privilege escalation from tss to root
    cvelistv5