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CVE-2019-18898: trousers: Local privilege escalation from tss to root

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-01-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the trousers package of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1; openSUSE Factory allowed local attackers escalate privileges from user tss to root. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 trousers versions prior to 0.3.14-6.3.1. openSUSE Factory trousers versions prior to 0.3.14-7.1.

Affected products

• openSUSE Leap: 15.1
• SUSE Trousers: before 0.3.14-6.3.1; before 0.3.14-7.1 — fixed in 0.3.14-6.3.1, 0.3.14-7.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: SUSE Trousers 0.3.14-6.3.1, 0.3.14-7.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00066.html
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157651
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00066.html
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157651

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