CVE-2019-3699 (NVD)

2020-01-24

UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the packaging of privoxy on openSUSE Leap 15.1, Factory allows local attackers to escalate from user privoxy to root. This issue affects: openSUSE Leap 15.1 privoxy version 3.0.28-lp151.1.1 and prior versions. openSUSE Factory privoxy version 3.0.28-2.1 and prior versions.

Products Privoxy
Type Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following') (CWE-59)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Links https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157449