Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-3692

047910
CVSS 7.8 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
local
low complexity
suse
opensuse
nessus
NVD
Published: 2020-01-24
Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

The packaging of inn on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11; openSUSE Factory, Leap 15.1 allows local attackers to escalate from user inn to root via symlink attacks. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 inn version 2.4.2-170.21.3.1 and prior versions. openSUSE Factory inn version 2.6.2-2.2 and prior versions. openSUSE Leap 15.1 inn version 2.5.4-lp151.2.47 and prior versions.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Suse
5
Application
Opensuse
2
OS
Suse
1
OS
Opensuse
1

Nessus

NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
NASL idOPENSUSE-2020-234.NASL
descriptionThis update for inn fixes the following issues : - CVE-2019-3692: Fixed a local privilage escalation from user to
last seen2020-03-18
modified2020-02-20
plugin id133827
published2020-02-20
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/133827
titleopenSUSE Security Update : inn (openSUSE-2020-234)
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2020-234.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(133827);
  script_version("1.2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/02/24");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2019-3692");

  script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : inn (openSUSE-2020-234)");
  script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2020-234 patch");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"This update for inn fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2019-3692: Fixed a local privilage escalation from
    user to 'news' (bsc#1154302)."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1154302"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected inn packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:inn");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:inn-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:inn-debugsource");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:inn-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mininews");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mininews-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.1");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/01/24");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/02/19");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/02/20");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE");
if (release !~ "^(SUSE15\.1)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "15.1", release);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (ourarch !~ "^(x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "x86_64", ourarch);

flag = 0;

if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE15.1", reference:"inn-2.5.4-lp151.3.3.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE15.1", reference:"inn-debuginfo-2.5.4-lp151.3.3.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE15.1", reference:"inn-debugsource-2.5.4-lp151.3.3.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE15.1", reference:"inn-devel-2.5.4-lp151.3.3.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE15.1", reference:"mininews-2.5.4-lp151.3.3.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE15.1", reference:"mininews-debuginfo-2.5.4-lp151.3.3.1") ) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "inn / inn-debuginfo / inn-debugsource / inn-devel / mininews / etc");
}

References