CVE-2022-21944

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

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Jan 26, 2022
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Dec 16, 2021

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	suse

Weaknesses

CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3openSUSE	watchman to before 4.9.0Affected
FactoryopenSUSE	watchman to before 4.9.0-9.1Affected

References

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

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