Privilege Escalation via Symlink Following in Privoxy on openSUSE Leap 15.1 and Factory

Privilege Escalation via Symlink Following in Privoxy on openSUSE Leap 15.1 and Factory

CVE-2019-3699 · 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 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.

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