CVE-2019-18897: Opensuse Leap

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the packaging of salt of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15; openSUSE Factory allows local attackers to escalate privileges from user salt to root. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 salt-master version 2019.2.0-46.83.1 and prior versions. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 salt-master version 2019.2.0-6.21.1 and prior versions. openSUSE Factory salt-master version 2019.2.2-3.1 and prior versions.

Affected products

• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Server: version 12 only; version 15 only

Published 2020-03-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.