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Vulnerability · Published Feb 2, 2023 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2022-3560

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity path traversal in pesign. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 16% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 83.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A flaw was found in pesign. The pesign package provides a systemd service used to start the pesign daemon. This service unit runs a script to set ACLs for /etc/pki/pesign and /run/pesign directories to grant access privileges to users in the 'pesign' group. However, the script doesn't check for symbolic links. This could allow an attacker to gain access to privileged files and directories via a path traversal attack.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8pesign0.112-27.el8_7ALSA-2023:1572
AlmaLinux:9pesign115-6.el9_1ALSA-2023:1067
Debian:12pesignno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2022-3560
Debian:13pesign116-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-3560
Debian:14pesign116-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-3560
Rocky Linux:8pesign0:0.112-27.el8_7RLSA-2023:1572
Rocky Linux:9pesign0:115-6.el9_1.rocky.2RLSA-2023:1067
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSpesignno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-3560
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSpesignno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-3560
Ubuntu:25.10pesignno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-3560
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSpesignno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-3560
Ubuntu:26.10pesignno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-3560

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a pesign All versions up to pesign-115

Weakness: CWE-22 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References