CVE-2019-18905

Summary

CVECVE-2019-18905
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-04-03 11:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-05-23 00:15:00 UTC
DescriptionA Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity vulnerability in autoyast2 of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 allows remote attackers to MITM connections when deprecated and unused functionality of autoyast is used to create images. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 autoyast2 version 4.1.9-3.9.1 and prior versions. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 autoyast2 version 4.0.70-3.20.1 and prior versions.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-345

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Opensuse Autoyast2 All All All All
Application Opensuse Autoyast2 All All All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 12 - All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 15 All All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 12 - All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 15 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Bug 1140711 – VUL-1: CVE-2019-18905: autoyast2: insecure use of --gpg-auto-import-keys? CONFIRM bugzilla.suse.com Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:0676-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Matthias Gerstner of SUSE

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