watchman: chown in watchman@.socket unit allows symlink attack
CVE-2022-21944

7.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Opensuse
Status
Opensuse Backports Sle-15-sp3
Factory
Vendor
CVE Published:
26 January 2022

What is CVE-2022-21944?

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.

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Affected Version(s)

Factory watchman < 4.9.0-9.1

openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3 watchman < 4.9.0

References

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

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Matthias Gerstner of SUSE
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