Vulnerability · Published Nov 22, 2022 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2022-41950Privilege Escalation Vulnerability by wrong chmod param

Medium 6.4

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in super-xray from 4ra1n. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 34% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.4Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 65.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

super-xray is the GUI alternative for vulnerability scanning tool xray. In 0.2-beta, a privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered. This caused inaccurate default xray permissions. Note: this vulnerability only affects Linux and Mac OS systems. Users should upgrade to super-xray 0.3-beta.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
4ra1n super-xray < 0.3-beta

Weakness: CWE-250 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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