Vigil@nce - pcp: privilege escalation via migrate_tempdirs
April 2020 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/computer-vulnerability
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: openSUSE Leap, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop,
SLES.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: administrator access/rights, privileged
access/rights.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 07/02/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can bypass restrictions via migrate_tempdirs of pcp,
in order to escalate his privileges.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/pcp-privilege-escalation-via-migrate-tempdirs-31561