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CVE-2019-3690: chkstat follows untrusted symbolic links

• 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: 2019-12-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

The chkstat tool in the permissions package followed symlinks before commit a9e1d26cd49ef9ee0c2060c859321128a6dd4230 (please also check the additional hardenings after this fix). This allowed local attackers with control over a path that is traversed by chkstat to escalate privileges.

Affected products

• openSUSE Leap: 15.1

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00024.html
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150734
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00024.html
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150734

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