CVE-2019-18897 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the packaging of Salt in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 and 15, and openSUSE Factory. This UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following flaw allows a local attacker with 'salt' user privileges to escalate to root. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), the vulnerability has low attack complexity and requires local access, but can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:12:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
15CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:15:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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