CVE-2019-18901: Opensuse Leap

Medium severity, CVSS 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.

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.