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CVE-2019-3699

Local privilege escalation from user privoxy to root

Published: Jan 24, 2020Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-59
7.7HIGH
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.4%
Top 66.6%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
Not available

Description

UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the packaging of privoxy on openSUSE Leap 15.1, Factory allows local attackers to escalate from user privoxy to root. This issue affects: openSUSE Leap 15.1 privoxy version 3.0.28-lp151.1.1 and prior versions. openSUSE Factory privoxy version 3.0.28-2.1 and prior versions.

No summary for this CVE yet.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:LAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:HI:HA:N
Exploitability
AV:LAttack Vector
Local
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:HIntegrity
High
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-59

Affected Products

openSUSE
oss-project·DE
Leap 15.1On-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
FactoryOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Novell Inc.
commercial·US
OpenSUSE LeapOn-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
openSUSE FactoryOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения
oss-projectaka fsf
PrivoxyOn-premNetwork Device
Networking Infrastructure / firewall
privoxy
oss-project
privoxyOn-prem
Networking Infrastructure / load-balancer-proxy

Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Collection
Discovery
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References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157449
bugzilla.suse.com
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157449
bugzilla.suse.com
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3699.html
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