Medium severity5.1NVD Advisory· Published Oct 7, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-3688
CVE-2019-3688
Description
The /usr/sbin/pinger binary packaged with squid in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 before and including version 4.8-5.8.1 and in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 before and including 3.5.21-26.17.1 had squid:root, 0750 permissions. This allowed an attacker that compromissed the squid user to gain persistence by changing the binary
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Affected products
36- osv-coords28 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/permissions&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/permissions&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%207pkg:rpm/suse/permissions&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%20Crowbar%208pkg:rpm/suse/permissions&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/permissions&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/permissions&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/permissions&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/permissions&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/permissions&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/permissions&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%205pkg:rpm/suse/permissions&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015pkg:rpm/suse/permissions&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/permissions&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/permissions&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/permissions&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/permissions&distro=HPE%20Helion%20OpenStack%208pkg:rpm/suse/permissions&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%208pkg:rpm/suse/permissions&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/permissions&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-LTSSpkg:rpm/opensuse/squid&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.0pkg:rpm/suse/permissions&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/permissions&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/permissions&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015pkg:rpm/opensuse/permissions&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.3pkg:rpm/opensuse/squid&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/permissions&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1
< 1550_20210901.1550-29.2+ 27 more
- (no CPE)range: < 1550_20210901.1550-29.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.9-5.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.9-5.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2015.09.28.1626-17.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2015.09.28.1626-17.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2015.09.28.1626-17.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2015.09.28.1626-17.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2015.09.28.1626-17.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2015.09.28.1626-17.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2015.09.28.1626-17.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2015.09.28.1626-17.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2015.09.28.1626-17.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 20180125-3.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 20170707-3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 20170707-3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 20170707-3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 20170707-3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2015.09.28.1626-17.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2015.09.28.1626-17.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 20170707-3.14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 20180125-3.21.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.9-lp150.13.1
- (no CPE)range: < 20180125-3.21.1
- (no CPE)range: < 20180125-3.21.1
- (no CPE)range: < 20180125-3.21.1
- (no CPE)range: < 20200127-lp153.24.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.9-lp151.2.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 20181116-lp151.4.9.1
<=4.8-5.8.1 (SLES 15), <=3.5.21-26.17.1 (SLES 12)+ 7 more
- (no CPE)range: <=4.8-5.8.1 (SLES 15), <=3.5.21-26.17.1 (SLES 12)
- (no CPE)range: squid
- (no CPE)range: squid
- cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux_enterprise_server:12:sp1:*:*:ltss:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux_enterprise_server:12:sp2:*:*:ltss:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux_enterprise_server:12:sp3:*:*:ltss:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux_enterprise_server:15:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux_enterprise_server:15:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
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