Local User Escalation via Insecure Packaging
CVE-2024-22029

7.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Suse
Status
Container Suse/manager/5.0/x86 64/server:5.0.0-beta1.2.122
Suse Enterprise Storage 7.1
Suse Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 Sp2-ltss
Suse Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 Sp3-ltss
Vendor
CVE Published:
16 October 2024

What is CVE-2024-22029?

The vulnerability arises from insecure permissions associated with the packaging of Tomcat, a web server and servlet container. This flaw allows local users to exploit a race condition during the installation process, potentially leading to privilege escalation to root. Organizations employing Tomcat should take immediate precautions to secure their environments against unauthorized privilege escalations by reviewing the implementation and applying any necessary patches or mitigations.

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Affected Version(s)

Container suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/server:5.0.0-beta1.2.122 ? < 9.0.85-150200.57.1

openSUSE Leap 15.5 ? < 9.0.85-150200.57.1

openSUSE Tumbleweed ? < 9.0.85-3.1

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2024-22029

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

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Johannes Segitz of SUSE
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