User can overwrite arbitrary log files in support tar
CVE-2018-19638

2.2LOW

Key Information:

Vendor

Suse
Status
Supportutils
Vendor
CVE Published:
5 March 2019

What is CVE-2018-19638?

In supportutils, before version 3.1-5.7.1 and if pacemaker is installed on the system, an unprivileged user could have overwritten arbitrary files in the directory that is used by supportutils to collect the log files.

Affected Version(s)

supportutils < 3.1-5.7.1

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1118460
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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
2.2
Severity:
LOW
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Johannes Segitz of SUSE
.