Privilege Escalation via Symlink Following in trousers package of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 and openSUSE Factory

Privilege Escalation via Symlink Following in trousers package of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 and openSUSE Factory

CVE-2019-18898 · HIGH Severity

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

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.

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