CVE-2019-3693: Opensuse Backports Sle

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

A symlink following vulnerability in the packaging of mailman in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12; openSUSE Leap 15.1 allowed local attackers to escalate their privileges from user wwwrun to root. Additionally arbitrary files could be changed to group mailman. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 mailman versions prior to 2.1.15-9.6.15.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 mailman versions prior to 2.1.17-3.11.1. openSUSE Leap 15.1 mailman version 2.1.29-lp151.2.14 and prior versions.

Affected products

• Opensuse Backports Sle: version 15.0 only
• Suse Mailman: before 2.1.15-9.6.15.1 (fixed in 2.1.15-9.6.15.1); before 2.1.17-3.11.1 (fixed in 2.1.17-3.11.1); up to and including 2.1.29-lp151.2.14

Published 2020-01-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.