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CVE-2019-3699

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-3699 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability (CWE-59) affecting specific versions of Privoxy on openSUSE Leap 15.1 and openSUSE Factory, allowing a local attacker to escalate privileges from the 'privoxy' user to root. With a CVSSv3.1 score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and no user interaction required, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.0.28-lp151.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:privoxy:privoxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 3.0.28-2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:privoxy:privoxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.7HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.5
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
33.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0041 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 17,070 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-3699Moderate

privoxy: local privilege escalation from privoxy to root

Jan 24, 2020

References

bugzilla.suse.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory