PT-2011-3211 · Opensuse · Opensuse

Ludwig Nussel · Published 2011-03-30 · Updated 2017-08-17 · CVE-2011-1551

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions openSUSE Factory (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows local users to potentially gain privileges by exploiting access to the web-service user account during root filesystem operations by the Cobbler daemon. This is due to the ownership of the /var/log/cobbler/ directory tree being assigned to the web-service user account.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-1551

Affected Products

Opensuse

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1551 · Security Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/23/11 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66487 · Note