Privilege escalation in Firejail_project Firejail
CVE-2022-31214
A Privilege Context Switching issue was discovered in join.c in Firejail 0.9.68. By crafting a bogus Firejail container that is accepted by the Firejail setuid-root program as a join target, a local attacker can enter an environment in whi…
Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation
EPSS: 0.004 (30.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
Affected products
- Firejail_project Firejail — versions 0.9.68
- Debian Debian_linux — versions 9.0, 10.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 35, 36, 37
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, Release Notes)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2022-31214?
- CVE-2022-31214 is a high-severity vulnerability in Firejail_project Firejail, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2022-06-09.
- How severe is CVE-2022-31214?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2022-31214 known to be exploited?
- 19 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.