CVE-2019-3689: SUSE SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12

nfs-utils: root-owned files stored in insecure /var/lib/nfs directory

CVSS 5.1 MediumEPSS 0.015 · 74th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: suse) at 19 Sept 2019, 13:27 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
Vendor	Product	Versions
SUSE	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12	affected before and including version 1.3.0-34.18.1
SUSE	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15	affected before and including version 2.1.1-6.10.2

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
5.1	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L	CNA (suse)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.015, the 74th 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 19 Sept 2019. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150733 confirm
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00026.html mailing-listmlist
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00071.html vendor-advisorysuse
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00006.html vendor-advisorysuse
git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/nfs-utils.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=fee2cc29e888f2ced6a76990923aef19d326dc0e
usn.ubuntu.com/4400-1/ vendor-advisoryubuntu

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