CVE-2022-21944 - CVE House

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Status published High CVE-2022-21944

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

7.8 CVSS

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

Matthias Gerstner of SUSE

References

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

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Affected Vendor

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Affected Software

openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3, Factory

Vulnerable Versions:

watchman

Timeline

Official Publish: January 26th, 2022

Last Modified: September 16th, 2024

Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1574 Hijack Execution Flow

Privilege Escalation

T1222 File and Directory Permissions Modification

Defense Evasion

T1005 Data from Local System

T1565 Data Manipulation

T1078 Valid Accounts