Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in seatd - CVE-2022-25643
Published: February 25, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU60888
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-25643
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly impose security restrictions in the seatd-launch component, which leads to security restrictions bypass and privilege escalation.
Affected software
seatd
How to mitigate CVE-2022-25643
Install updates from vendor's website.
seatd - update to 0.6.4