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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 24, 2020· Updated Sep 16, 2024

Local privilege escalation from user privoxy to root

CVE-2019-3699

Description

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.

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Affected products

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  • Privoxy/Privoxyllm-fuzzy
    Range: <=3.0.28-lp151.1.1 on openSUSE Leap 15.1; <=3.0.28-2.1 on openSUSE Factory
  • openSUSE/Factoryv5
    Range: privoxy
  • OpenSUSE/Leapcpe-rescue
    Range: privoxy

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