Vulnerability · Published Aug 18, 2022 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2022-29549
High 7.3
In plain English
A high-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 0.3% (higher than 20% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
An issue was discovered in Qualys Cloud Agent 4.8.0-49. It executes programs at various full pathnames without first making ownership and permission checks (e.g., to help ensure that a program was installed by root) and without integrity checks (e.g., a checksum comparison against known legitimate programs). Also, the vendor recommendation is to install this agent software with root privileges. Thus, privilege escalation is possible on systems where any of these pathnames is controlled by a non-root user. An example is /opt/firebird/bin/isql, where the /opt/firebird directory is often owned by the firebird user.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research x_refsource_MISC
- http://software.firstworks.com/p/getting-started-with-firebird.html x_refsource_MISC
- https://blog.qualys.com/product-tech/2022/08/15/qualys-security-updates-cloud-agent-for-linux x_refsource_MISC
- 20220912 Multiple vulnerabilities discovered in Qualys Cloud Agent mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168367/Qualys-Cloud-Agent-Arbitrary-Code-Execution.html x_refsource_MISC