Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-3693
Summary
A symlink following vulnerability in the packaging of mailman in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12; openSUSE Leap 15.1 allowed local attackers to escalate their privileges from user wwwrun to root. Additionally arbitrary files could be changed to group mailman. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 mailman versions prior to 2.1.15-9.6.15.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 mailman versions prior to 2.1.17-3.11.1. openSUSE Leap 15.1 mailman version 2.1.29-lp151.2.14 and prior versions.
Vulnerable Configurations
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OS | 2 | |
OS | 1 |
Nessus
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2020-148.NASL description This update for mailman fixes the following issues : - CVE-2019-3693: Fixed a privilege escalation during package install. Could be exploited by a local users who is members of the the mailman group. (boo#1154328) last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 133347 published 2020-01-30 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/133347 title openSUSE Security Update : mailman (openSUSE-2020-148) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2020-148. # # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(133347); script_version("1.3"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2020/02/04"); script_cve_id("CVE-2019-3693"); script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : mailman (openSUSE-2020-148)"); script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2020-148 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 mailman fixes the following issues : - CVE-2019-3693: Fixed a privilege escalation during package install. Could be exploited by a local users who is members of the the mailman group. (boo#1154328)" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1154328" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected mailman 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:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-3693"); 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:mailman"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mailman-debuginfo"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mailman-debugsource"); 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:"2020/01/29"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/01/30"); 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:"mailman-2.1.29-lp151.3.3.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE15.1", reference:"mailman-debuginfo-2.1.29-lp151.3.3.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE15.1", reference:"mailman-debugsource-2.1.29-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, "mailman / mailman-debuginfo / mailman-debugsource"); }
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2019-3076-1.NASL description This update for mailman fixes the following issues : CVE-2019-3693: Fixed a local privilege escalation from wwwrun to root (bsc#1154328). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 131387 published 2019-11-27 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/131387 title SUSE SLES12 Security Update : mailman (SUSE-SU-2019:3076-1) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from SUSE update advisory SUSE-SU-2019:3076-1. # The text itself is copyright (C) SUSE. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(131387); script_version("1.4"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2020/02/04"); script_cve_id("CVE-2019-3693"); script_name(english:"SUSE SLES12 Security Update : mailman (SUSE-SU-2019:3076-1)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "This update for mailman fixes the following issues : CVE-2019-3693: Fixed a local privilege escalation from wwwrun to root (bsc#1154328). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1154328" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3693/" ); # https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2019/suse-su-20193076-1/ script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?f434f3c0" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value: "To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product : SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Crowbar-8-2019-3076=1 SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-8-2019-3076=1 SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-7-2019-3076=1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP3-2019-3076=1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2019-3076=1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP1-2019-3076=1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2019-3076=1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2019-3076=1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-3076=1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCL:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-BCL-2019-3076=1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2019-3076=1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2019-3076=1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2019-3076=1 SUSE Enterprise Storage 5:zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-5-2019-3076=1 HPE Helion Openstack 8:zypper in -t patch HPE-Helion-OpenStack-8-2019-3076=1" ); 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:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-3693"); 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:suse_linux:mailman"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mailman-debuginfo"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mailman-debugsource"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/01/24"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/11/26"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/11/27"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 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/cpu", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list"); 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, "SUSE"); os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^(SLE(S|D)\d+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "SUSE"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! preg(pattern:"^(SLES12)$", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE SLES12", "SUSE " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if (cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "x86_64" >!< cpu && "s390x" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "SUSE " + os_ver, cpu); sp = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/patchlevel"); if (isnull(sp)) sp = "0"; if (os_ver == "SLES12" && (! preg(pattern:"^(1|2|3|4|5)$", string:sp))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLES12 SP1/2/3/4/5", os_ver + " SP" + sp); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"1", reference:"mailman-2.1.17-3.11.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"1", reference:"mailman-debuginfo-2.1.17-3.11.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"1", reference:"mailman-debugsource-2.1.17-3.11.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"4", reference:"mailman-2.1.17-3.11.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"4", reference:"mailman-debuginfo-2.1.17-3.11.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"4", reference:"mailman-debugsource-2.1.17-3.11.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"3", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"mailman-2.1.17-3.11.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"3", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"mailman-debuginfo-2.1.17-3.11.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"3", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"mailman-debugsource-2.1.17-3.11.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"3", reference:"mailman-2.1.17-3.11.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"3", reference:"mailman-debuginfo-2.1.17-3.11.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"3", reference:"mailman-debugsource-2.1.17-3.11.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"mailman-2.1.17-3.11.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"mailman-debuginfo-2.1.17-3.11.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"mailman-debugsource-2.1.17-3.11.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"2", reference:"mailman-2.1.17-3.11.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"2", reference:"mailman-debuginfo-2.1.17-3.11.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"2", reference:"mailman-debugsource-2.1.17-3.11.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"5", reference:"mailman-2.1.17-3.11.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"5", reference:"mailman-debuginfo-2.1.17-3.11.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"5", reference:"mailman-debugsource-2.1.17-3.11.1")) 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, "mailman"); }
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00059.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00059.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-02/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-02/msg00000.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1154328
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1154328