CVE-2018-19636 (GCVE-0-2018-19636)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-03-05 16:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 04:03
VLAI
Title
Local root exploit via inclusion of attacker controlled shell script
Summary
Supportutils, before version 3.1-5.7.1, when run with command line argument -A searched the file system for a ndspath binary. If an attacker provides one at an arbitrary location it is executed with root privileges
Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
SUSE supportutils Affected: unspecified , < 3.1-5.7.1 (custom)
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Date Public
2019-02-21 00:00
Credits
Vítězslav Čížek of SUSE
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