First published: Wed Mar 16 2022(Updated: )
A Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in the sudoers configuration in cscreen of openSUSE Factory allows any local users to gain the privileges of the tty and dialout groups and access and manipulate any running cscreen seesion. This issue affects: openSUSE Factory cscreen version 1.2-1.3 and prior versions.
Credit: meissner@suse.de
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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Opensuse Cscreen | >=1.2<=1.3 | |
openSUSE Factory |
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CVE-2022-21946 refers to a vulnerability in the sudoers configuration in cscreen of openSUSE Factory, allowing local users to gain privileges and access/manipulate cscreen sessions.
The severity of CVE-2022-21946 is medium with a CVSS score of 5.3.
The affected software for CVE-2022-21946 is openSUSE Factory cscreen version 1.2 to 1.3.
Local users can exploit CVE-2022-21946 by abusing the incorrect permission assignment in the sudoers configuration to gain privileges and manipulate cscreen sessions.
No, openSUSE Factory is not vulnerable to CVE-2022-21946.