Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3 and Factory Watchman

Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3 and Factory Watchman

CVE-2022-21944 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the systemd service file for watchman of openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3, Factory allows local attackers to escalate to root. This issue affects: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3 watchman versions prior to 4.9.0. openSUSE Factory watchman versions prior to 4.9.0-9.1.

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