Security advisory

{
  "id": "b51f1e7b76aa24413ffb4d7757223c05176980d54ae2e0878a366d8d8674821e",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-3698",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2019-3698",
    "summary": "UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the cronjob shipped with nagios of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11; openSUSE Factory allows local attackers to cause cause DoS or potentially escalate privileges by winning a race. This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 nagios version 3.5.1-5.27 and prior versions. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 nagios version 3.0.6-1.25.36.3.1 and prior versions. openSUSE Factory nagios version 4.4.5-2.1 and prior versions.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-3698",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2019-3698",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2019-3698"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/nagiosenterprises/nagioscore",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "5e0dbec06cf5f6a4201335da9e8f3557bcd9fa06"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "3.0.6"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "nagios-3.0b5",
            "nagios-3.0b4",
            "nagios-3.0b3",
            "nagios-3.0b2",
            "nagios-3.0b1",
            "nagios-3.0a5",
            "nagios-3.0a4",
            "nagios-3.0a3",
            "nagios-3.0a2",
            "nagios-3.0a1",
            "nagios-2.0",
            "nagios-2.0rc1",
            "nagios-2.0b6",
            "nagios-2.0.b5",
            "nagios-2.0b4",
            "nagios-2.0b3",
            "nagios-2.0b2",
            "nagios-2.0b1",
            "nagios-1.0b6",
            "nagios-1.0b5",
            "nagios-1.0b4",
            "nagios-1.0b3",
            "nagios-1.0b2",
            "nagios-1.0b1",
            "nagios-1.0a7",
            "nagios-1.0a6"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-3698.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:21.727251112Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1156309"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:a:nagios:nagios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "nagios:nagios",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "fixed": "3.5.1"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_RANGE"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:a:opensuse:backports_sle:15.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "opensuse:backports_sle",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "15.0-sp1"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "15.0-sp1"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "opensuse:leap",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "15.1"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "15.1"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2019-3698",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 430545,
  "published_at": "2020-02-28T14:15:09.687+00:00"
}