CVE-2018-19640: Opensuse Supportutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

If the attacker manages to create files in the directory used to collect log files in supportutils before version 3.1-5.7.1 (e.g. with CVE-2018-19638) he can kill arbitrary processes on the local machine.

Affected products

• Opensuse Supportutils: before 3.1-5.7.1 (fixed in 3.1-5.7.1)

Published 2019-03-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.