What is CVE-2018-19639?

CVE-2018-19639 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Opensuse Supportutils, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 6.7/10. Published 2019-03-05.

How severe is CVE-2018-19639?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.7 out of 10.

RCE in Opensuse Supportutils

CVE-2018-19639

If supportutils before version 3.1-5.7.1 is run with -v to perform rpm verification and the attacker manages to manipulate the rpm listing (e.g. with CVE-2018-19638) he can execute arbitrary commands as root.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.005 (39.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Opensuse Supportutils
Suse Supportutils — versions unspecified

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-78 — OS Command Injection

References

security@opentext.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
security@opentext.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-19639?: CVE-2018-19639 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Opensuse Supportutils, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 6.7/10. Published 2019-03-05.
How severe is CVE-2018-19639?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.7 out of 10.