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CVE-2022-41950 (GCVE-0-2022-41950)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-22 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-22 16:02
VLAI
Title
Privilege Escalation Vulnerability by wrong chmod param
Summary
super-xray is the GUI alternative for vulnerability scanning tool xray. In 0.2-beta, a privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered. This caused inaccurate default xray permissions. Note: this vulnerability only affects Linux and Mac OS systems. Users should upgrade to super-xray 0.3-beta.
Severity
6.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-22 15:40 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-250 - Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
4ra1n super-xray Affected: < 0.3-beta
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