hawk: Insecure file permissions
CVE-2021-25314

7.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor: Suse
Status: Suse Linux Enterprise High Availability 12-sp3; Suse Linux Enterprise High Availability 12-sp5; Suse Linux Enterprise High Availability 15-sp2
Vendor: CVE Published:; 14 April 2021

Summary

A Creation of Temporary File With Insecure Permissions vulnerability in hawk2 of SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 12-SP3, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 12-SP5, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 15-SP2 allows local attackers to escalate to root. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 12-SP3 hawk2 versions prior to 2.6.3+git.1614685906.812c31e9. SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 12-SP5 hawk2 versions prior to 2.6.3+git.1614685906.812c31e9. SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 15-SP2 hawk2 versions prior to 2.6.3+git.1614684118.af555ad9.

Affected Version(s)

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 12-SP3 hawk2 < 2.6.3+git.1614685906.812c31e9

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 12-SP5 hawk2 < 2.6.3+git.1614685906.812c31e9

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 15-SP2 hawk2 < 2.6.3+git.1614684118.af555ad9

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182166

CVSS V3.1

Score:

7.8

Severity:

HIGH

Confidentiality:

High

Integrity:

High

Availability:

High

Attack Vector:

Local

Attack Complexity:

Low

Privileges Required:

Low

User Interaction:

None

Scope:

Unchanged

Timeline

Vulnerability published
Apr 14, 2021
Vulnerability Reserved
Jan 19, 2021

Credit

Johannes Segitz of SUSE