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CVE record · CVE-2019-18897

Local privilege escalation from user salt to root

CVSS 8.4 HighEPSS 0.0039 · 32nd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: suse) at 2 Mar 2020, 15:20 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
  • affected salt-master to 2019.2.0-46.83.1, inclusive custom
SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
  • affected salt-master to 2019.2.0-6.21.1, inclusive custom
openSUSE Factory
  • affected salt-master to 2019.2.2-3.1, inclusive custom
Identifiers
CVE-2019-18897
CNA
suse
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-59
Tags
Published
2 Mar 2020
Updated
17 Sept 2024

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
8.4 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (suse)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0039, the 32nd percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 2 Mar 2020. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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