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CVE-2019-18897: Local privilege escalation from user salt to root

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-03-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the packaging of salt of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15; openSUSE Factory allows local attackers to escalate privileges from user salt to root. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 salt-master version 2019.2.0-46.83.1 and prior versions. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 salt-master version 2019.2.0-6.21.1 and prior versions. openSUSE Factory salt-master version 2019.2.2-3.1 and prior versions.

Affected products

• openSUSE Leap: 15.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 12, 15

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00026.html
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157465
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00026.html
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157465

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