CVE-2022-31253

openldap2: /usr/lib/openldap/start allows ldap user/group to recursively chown arbitrary directory trees to itself

State: Published
Severity: 7.1 High
Published: Nov 9, 2022
Updated: May 1, 2025
Reserved: May 20, 2022

Description

A Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in openldap2 of openSUSE Factory allows local attackers with control of the ldap user or group to change ownership of arbitrary directory entries to this user/group, leading to escalation to root. This issue affects: openSUSE Factory openldap2 versions prior to 2.6.3-404.1.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.1 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N	suse

Weaknesses

CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FactoryopenSUSE	openldap2 to before 2.6.3-404.1Affected

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1202931

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