Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in schroot - CVE-2022-2787

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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in schroot - CVE-2022-2787

Published: August 18, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU66638
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2787
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: fragmede
Affected software:
schroot

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to schroot has too permissive rules on chroot or session names. A local user can perform a denial of service on the schroot service for all users that may start a schroot session.


How to mitigate CVE-2022-2787

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

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