CVE-2019-3689
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.1 · CWE-276
5.1CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
The nfs-utils package in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 before and including version 1.3.0-34.18.1 and in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 before and including version 2.1.1-6.10.2 the directory /var/lib/nfs is owned by statd:nogroup. This directory contains files owned and managed by root. If statd is compromised, it can therefore trick processes running with root privileges into creating/overwriting files anywhere on the system.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactLow
Availability impactLow
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150733 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150733Patch
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00071.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00006.htmlAdvisory
- https://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/nfs-utils.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=fee2cc29e888f2ced6a76990923aef19d326dc0e
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00026.htmlAdvisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4400-1/Advisory