CVE-2019-3694 — Local privilege escalation from munin to root in the packaging of munin

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HIGH

Local privilege escalation from munin to root in the packaging of munin

Published Jan 24, 2020

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.42%

Description

A Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the packaging of munin in openSUSE Factory, Leap 15.1 allows local attackers to escalate from user munin to root. This issue affects: openSUSE Factory munin version 2.0.49-4.2 and prior versions. openSUSE Leap 15.1 munin version 2.0.40-lp151.1.1 and prior versions.

Affected products

Vendor openSUSE Product Factory Default
n/a
- Version
  munin
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <=2.0.49-4.2
Vendor openSUSE Product Leap 15.1 Default
n/a
- Version
  munin
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <=2.0.40-lp151.1.1

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

openSUSE

Factory

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
munin	affected	<=2.0.49-4.2

openSUSE

Leap 15.1

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
munin	affected	<=2.0.40-lp151.1.1

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.42% 0.00418

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 3, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00418

Score over time

2021–2026

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3

Percentile over time

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3

Table of values (8 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 3, 2026	0.42% (0.00418)	33.91th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Sep 20, 2026	0.42% (0.00418)	35.80th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jul 20, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.06th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.40% (0.01404)	49.02th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 3, 2022	0.98% (0.00985)	27.20th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Apr 14, 2021	0.22% (0.00221)	0.00th	v1

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-59

References (1)

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155078
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155078		x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner suse

Published Jan 24, 2020

Updated Sep 17, 2024

Reserved Jan 3, 2019

Link CVE-2019-3694

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2019-3694

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2019-3694