CVE-2022-46343

CVSS 8.8 HIGHEPSS 2.4%CWE-416

Vexday Risk Score

21Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 8.8EPSS 2.4%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch referenciado

Lifecycle

14 Dec 2022Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

A vulnerability was found in X.Org. This security flaw occurs because the handler for the ScreenSaverSetAttributes request may write to memory after it has been freed. This issue can lead to local privileges elevation on systems where the X server is running privileged and remote code execution for ssh X forwarding sessions.

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

Affected products

n/a · xorg-x11-server

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-46343 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151758 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5NELB7YDWRABYYBG4UPTHRBDTKJRV5M2/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DXDF2O5PPLE3SVAJJYUOSAD5QZ4TWQ2G/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z67QC4C3I2FI2WRFIUPEHKC36J362MLA/https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-30 https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5304