A vulnerability was found in Supportutils up to 3.1-5.7.0 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component Pacemaker. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a link following vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-59. The product attempts to access a file based on the filename, but it does not properly prevent that filename from identifying a link or shortcut that resolves to an unintended resource. Impacted is integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

In supportutils, before version 3.1-5.7.1 and if pacemaker is installed on the system, an unprivileged user could have overwritten arbitrary files in the directory that is used by supportutils to collect the log files.

The bug was discovered 03/15/2019. The weakness was shared 03/05/2019 as Bug 1118460 as confirmed bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.suse.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-19638 since 11/28/2018. The attack needs to be approached locally. A simple authentication is needed for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 172133 (OpenSUSE Security Update for supportutils (openSUSE-SU-2019:0293-1)).

Upgrading to version 3.1-5.7.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The entries VDB-131323, VDB-131325 and VDB-131326 are related to this item.

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• 3.1-5.0
• 3.1-5.1
• 3.1-5.2
• 3.1-5.3
• 3.1-5.4
• 3.1-5.5
• 3.1-5.6
• 3.1-5.7

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