CVE-2022-21944

watchman: chown in watchman@.socket unit allows symlink attack

CVSS 7.8 HIGHEPSS 0.3%CWE-59

Vexday Risk Score

21Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 7.8EPSS 0.3%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

26 Jan 2022Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the systemd service file for watchman of openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3, Factory allows local attackers to escalate to root. This issue affects: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3 watchman versions prior to 4.9.0. openSUSE Factory watchman versions prior to 4.9.0-9.1.

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

openSUSE · Factory openSUSE · openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3

Want to know if your infrastructure is exposed to this?

Talk to TrueHacking →

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1194470