CVE-2019-3692 Local privilege escalation from user news to root in the packaging of inn

What is CVE-2019-3692?

CVE-2019-3692 is a high-severity vulnerability in Opensuse Backports Sle, published on 24 Jan 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The packaging of inn on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11; openSUSE Factory, Leap 15.1 allows local attackers to escalate from user inn to root via symlink attacks. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 inn version 2.4.2-170.21.3.1 and prior versions. openSUSE Factory inn version 2.6.2-2.2 and prior versions. openSUSE Leap 15.1 inn version 2.5.4-lp151.2.47 and prior versions.

Weakness: CWE-59

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-3692?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Opensuse Backports Sle, Opensuse Leap, Suse Inn.

How do I fix CVE-2019-3692?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2019-3692 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-3692 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Backports Sle

• CVE-2020-12641 Roundcube Webmail Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-12640 Path traversal in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-8233 Command injection in EdgeSwitch firmware v1.9.0 and prior High 8.8
• CVE-2020-8026 inn: non-root owned files High 8.4
• CVE-2020-15229 Path traversal and files overwrite with unsquashfs High 8.2

All Opensuse Backports Sle vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-666m-88c3-537x, openSUSE-SU-2020:0234-1, openSUSE-SU-2020:0242-1, openSUSE-SU-2024:10862-1.