CVE-2019-3688: squid: /usr/sbin/pinger packaged with wrong permission

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-10-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-276

Description

The /usr/sbin/pinger binary packaged with squid in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 before and including version 4.8-5.8.1 and in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 before and including 3.5.21-26.17.1 had squid:root, 0750 permissions. This allowed an attacker that compromissed the squid user to gain persistence by changing the binary

Affected products

SUSE Linux Enterprise: 12-sp1, 12-sp2, 12-sp3, 15, 15-sp1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00053.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00056.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00024.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1093414
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00053.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00056.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00024.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1093414

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