CVE-2021-31998: Opensuse Inn

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A Incorrect Default Permissions vulnerability in the packaging of inn of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3; openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2, openSUSE Leap 15.2 allows local attackers to escalate their privileges from the news user to root. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 inn version inn-2.4.2-170.21.3.1 and prior versions. openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2 inn versions prior to 2.6.2. openSUSE Leap 15.2 inn versions prior to 2.6.2.

Affected products

• Opensuse Inn: up to and including 2.4.2-170.21.3.1; before 2.6.2 (fixed in 2.6.2)

Published 2021-06-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.