Upstream information

CVE-2024-5742 at MITRE

Description

A vulnerability was found in GNU Nano that allows a possible privilege escalation through an insecure temporary file. If Nano is killed while editing, a file it saves to an emergency file with the permissions of the running user provides a window of opportunity for attackers to escalate privileges through a malicious symlink.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
  SUSE
Base Score 6.3
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required High
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1226099 [IN_PROGRESS]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP5
  • nano >= 7.2-bp155.2.3.1
  • nano-lang >= 7.2-bp155.2.3.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2024-157
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP6
  • nano >= 7.2-bp156.3.3.1
  • nano-lang >= 7.2-bp156.3.3.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2024-157
openSUSE Leap 15.5
  • nano >= 7.2-bp155.2.3.1
  • nano-lang >= 7.2-bp155.2.3.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2024-157
openSUSE Leap 15.6
  • nano >= 7.2-bp156.3.3.1
  • nano-lang >= 7.2-bp156.3.3.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2024-157
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • nano >= 8.0-2.1
  • nano-lang >= 8.0-2.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-14034

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 7 16:00:02 2024
CVE page last modified: Sun Jun 16 03:05:07 2024