Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in permissions - CVE-2022-31252

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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in permissions - CVE-2022-31252

Published: September 23, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU67623
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31252
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: SUSE
Affected software:
permissions

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists within the chkstat tool, which does not check for group-writable parent directories or target files in safeOpen(). A local user can change permissions for critical files and escalate privileges on the system.


How to mitigate CVE-2022-31252

Install updates from vendor's website.

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