Privilege Escalation Affecting apt-cacher-ng package, versions [,3.1-lp151.3.3.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-APTCACHERNG-2370062
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Jan 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Jan 2020

CVE-2019-18899  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade apt-cacher-ng to version 3.1-lp151.3.3.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. The apt-cacher-ng package of openSUSE Leap 15.1 runs operations in user owned directory /run/apt-cacher-ng with root privileges. This can allow local attackers to influence the outcome of these operations. This issue affects: openSUSE Leap 15.1 apt-cacher-ng versions prior to 3.1-lp151.3.3.1.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1