CVE-2019-18897 Local privilege escalation from user salt to root

What is CVE-2019-18897?

CVE-2019-18897 is a high-severity vulnerability in Opensuse Leap, published on 2 Mar 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the packaging of salt of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15; openSUSE Factory allows local attackers to escalate privileges from user salt to root. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 salt-master version 2019.2.0-46.83.1 and prior versions. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 salt-master version 2019.2.0-6.21.1 and prior versions. openSUSE Factory salt-master version 2019.2.2-3.1 and prior versions.

Weakness: CWE-59

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-18897?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Opensuse Leap, Suse Linux Enterprise Server.

How do I fix CVE-2019-18897?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2019-18897 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-18897 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Leap

• CVE-2015-4902 Oracle Java SE Integrity Check Exploited Medium 5.3
• CVE-2017-14804 package builds could use directory traversal to write outside of target area Critical 9.9
• CVE-2019-20787 Teeworlds before 0.7.4 has an integer overflow when computing a tilemap size. Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-8341 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-6438 Other in n/a Critical 9.8

All Opensuse Leap vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-p48p-8wh6-cj6f, SUSE-SU-2020:0762-1, SUSE-SU-2020:0763-1.