Vulnerability · Published Apr 7, 2022 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2022-27819

Medium 5.3

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.9% (higher than 59% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.9%top 41.4% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

SWHKD 1.1.5 allows unsafe parsing via the -c option. An information leak might occur but there is a simple denial of service (memory exhaustion) upon an attempt to parse a large or infinite file (such as a block or character device).

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://github.com/waycrate/swhkd/releases x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/waycrate/swhkd/commit/b4e6dc76f4845ab03104187a42ac6d1bbc1e0021 x_refsource_MISC
[oss-security] 20220414 Multiple vulnerabilities in swhkd hotkey helper for Wayland mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST