CVE-2021-31997

CVE-2021-31997, security advisory, suse linux, suse, security, cve

CVE-2021-31997

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

[Previous] [Index] [Next]

Upstream information

CVE-2021-31997 at MITRE

Description

A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in python-postorius of openSUSE Leap 15.2, Factory allows local attackers to escalate from users postorius or postorius-admin to root. This issue affects: openSUSE Leap 15.2 python-postorius version 1.3.2-lp152.1.2 and prior versions. openSUSE Factory python-postorius version 1.3.4-2.1 and prior versions.

---

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.2
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

CVSS v3 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.8
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector	Local
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	Low
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1182407 [RESOLVED / WONTFIX]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE Tumbleweed	postorius >= 1.3.6-1.1 postorius-web >= 1.3.6-1.1 postorius-web-uwsgi >= 1.3.6-1.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-12306

---

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Feb 18 10:59:34 2021
CVE page last modified: Tue Sep 3 19:20:34 2024