Upstream information

CVE-2019-12522 at MITRE

Description

An issue was discovered in Squid through 4.7. When Squid is run as root, it spawns its child processes as a lesser user, by default the user nobody. This is done via the leave_suid call. leave_suid leaves the Saved UID as 0. This makes it trivial for an attacker who has compromised the child process to escalate their privileges back to root.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Pending

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 10
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 9.8 4.5
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack Vector Network Local
Attack Complexity Low High
Privileges Required None Low
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High Low
Integrity Impact High Low
Availability Impact High Low
CVSSv3 Version 3.1 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1170454 [NEW]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP5 squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3 squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 squid Affected
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 squid Affected
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 squid Affected
SUSE Manager Server 4.3 squid Affected
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-ESPOS squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-ESPOS squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-ESPOS squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP2 squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP3 squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP4 squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4-LTSS squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-ESPOS squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Business Critical Linux 15 SP1 squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Business Critical Linux 15 SP2 squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 squid Unsupported
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 squid Affected
SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 squid Affected
SUSE CaaS Platform 4.5 squid Unsupported
SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 squid Unsupported
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP4 squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP1 squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2 squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP4 squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 squid3 Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 squid3 Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS squid3 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 squid3 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS squid3 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS squid3 Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-BCL squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-BCL squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-BCL squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 squid Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 squid Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 squid Affected
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 squid Unsupported
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1 squid Unsupported
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2 squid Unsupported
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0 squid Unsupported
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1 squid Unsupported
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2 squid Unsupported
SUSE Manager Server 4.0 squid Unsupported
SUSE Manager Server 4.1 squid Unsupported
SUSE Manager Server 4.2 squid Unsupported
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 squid Affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 squid Affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 squid Affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 squid Affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 squid Affected


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Apr 15 23:47:43 2020
CVE page last modified: Thu Feb 1 01:34:08 2024