CVE-2019-3688

published 2019-10-07

CVE-2019-3688: The /usr/sbin/pinger binary packaged with squid in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 before and including version 4.8-5.8.1 and in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server…

Priority P4 30 high 7.1 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR L UI N S U C N I H A H

The /usr/sbin/pinger binary packaged with squid in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 before and including version 4.8-5.8.1 and in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 before and including 3.5.21-26.17.1 had squid:root, 0750 permissions. This allowed an attacker that compromissed the squid user to gain persistence by changing the binary

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	squid	—	—
suse	suse_linux_enterprise_server	—	—
suse	suse_linux_enterprise_server	—	—
suse	suse_linux_enterprise_server_12	squid – 3.5.21-26.17.1	—
suse	suse_linux_enterprise_server_15	squid – 4.8-5.8.1	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 7.1 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 6.6 MEDIUM AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

vendor_debian 5.1 LOW

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