What is CVE-2011-4190?

CVE-2011-4190 is a medium-severity vulnerability in SUSE Kdump, classified under Missing Authentication for Critical Function. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2018-06-08.

How severe is CVE-2011-4190?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Auth bypass in SUSE Kdump

CVE-2011-4190

The kdump implementation is missing the host key verification in the kdump and mkdumprd OpenSSH integration of kdump prior to version 2012-01-20. This is similar to CVE-2011-3588, but different in that the kdump implementation is specific to SUSE. A remote malicious kdump server could use this flaw to impersonate the correct kdump server to obtain security sensitive information (kdump core files).

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

Published 2018-06-08 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.008 (54.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 54th percentile — 54.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: 0.000

Affected products

SUSE Kdump — versions unspecified
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop — versions 11
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server — versions 11, 11.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2011-4190?: CVE-2011-4190 is a medium-severity vulnerability in SUSE Kdump, classified under Missing Authentication for Critical Function. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2018-06-08.
How severe is CVE-2011-4190?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.