What is CVE-2022-21946?

CVE-2022-21946 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Opensuse Factory, classified under Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2022-03-16.

How severe is CVE-2022-21946?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Opensuse Factory

CVE-2022-21946

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 run…

EPSS: 0.000 (11.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L.

Affected products

Opensuse Factory — versions cscreen

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-732 — Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

References

bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-21946?: CVE-2022-21946 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Opensuse Factory, classified under Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2022-03-16.
How severe is CVE-2022-21946?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.