01 Record
CVE-2019-18897
Local privilege escalation from user salt to root
HighPUBLISHEDCNA: suse
CNA base score8.4 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
02 Description
Local privilege escalation from user salt to root
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.38% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 32.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-03-02 15:20Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-17 01:21Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2019-11-12
- Assigning CNA
- suse
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- High (CVSS 8.4)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 5934029ac4af8c98c33905a242a317b1c042cc0fa66a757b32556ffcce7a5cb3
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:0357http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00026.html
- bugzilla.suse.comhttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157465