CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-19519
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-12-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287
Description
In OpenBSD 6.6, local users can use the su -L option to achieve any login class (often excluding root) because there is a logic error in the main function in su/su.c.
Affected configurations
• openbsd openbsd 6.6
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155572/Qualys-Security-Advisory-OpenBSD-Authentication-Bypass-Privilege-Escalation.html Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/14 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/12/04/5 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/2dfc98f42e117c7605b52b5020b630d98601dc22/usr.bin/su/su.c#L210-L211 Third Party Advisory
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/8 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openbsd.org/errata66.html Vendor Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/12/04/5 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155572/Qualys-Security-Advisory-OpenBSD-Authentication-Bypass-Privilege-Escalation.html Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/14 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/12/04/5 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/2dfc98f42e117c7605b52b5020b630d98601dc22/usr.bin/su/su.c#L210-L211 Third Party Advisory
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/8 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openbsd.org/errata66.html Vendor Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/12/04/5 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory