cve-2022-21944
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-01-26 09:10
Modified
2024-09-16 16:43
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
watchman: chown in watchman@.socket unit allows symlink attack
References
meissner@suse.dehttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1194470Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
openSUSEopenSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3
openSUSEFactory
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