CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2019-19519
High (7.8) in openbsd openbsd. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In OpenBSD 6.6, local users can use the su -L option to achieve any login class (often excluding root) because there is a logic error in the main function in su/su.c.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 33% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-287
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- openbsd:openbsd
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155572/Qualys-Security-Advisory-OpenBSD-Authentication-Bypass-Privilege-Escalation.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/14
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/12/04/5
- https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/2dfc98f42e117c7605b52b5020b630d98601dc22/usr.bin/su/su.c#L210-L211
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/8