Link Following Affecting keepalived package, versions <2.0.19-3.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.5% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-KEEPALIVED-2713690
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed24 Mar 2020

Introduced: 24 Mar 2020

CVE-2018-19044  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 keepalived to version 2.0.19-3.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream keepalived package and not the keepalived package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 relevant fixed versions and status.

keepalived 2.0.8 didn't check for pathnames with symlinks when writing data to a temporary file upon a call to PrintData or PrintStats. This allowed local users to overwrite arbitrary files if fs.protected_symlinks is set to 0, as demonstrated by a symlink from /tmp/keepalived.data or /tmp/keepalived.stats to /etc/passwd.