CVE-2019-18901

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.4%

Medium (5.5). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the mysql-systemd-helper of the mariadb packaging of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 allows local attackers to change the permissions of arbitrary files to 0640. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 mariadb versions prior to 10.2.31-3.25.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 mariadb versions prior to 10.2.31-3.26.1.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 32% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-59
Published: 2020-03-02
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

opensuse:leap
suse:linux_enterprise_server

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00007.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1160895
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00007.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1160895

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