CVE-2019-3698: Nagios

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the cronjob shipped with nagios of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11; openSUSE Factory allows local attackers to cause cause DoS or potentially escalate privileges by winning a race. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 nagios version 3.5.1-5.27 and prior versions. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 nagios version 3.0.6-1.25.36.3.1 and prior versions. openSUSE Factory nagios version 4.4.5-2.1 and prior versions.

Affected products

• Nagios Nagios: before 3.5.1 (fixed in 3.5.1); before 3.0.6 (fixed in 3.0.6)
• Opensuse Backports Sle: version 15.0 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only

Published 2020-02-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.