CVE-2022-21946

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    CVE-2022-21946

    Published: 16 Mar 2022Last Modified: 24 Oct 2026

    Summary: suddoers configuration for cscreen not restrictive enough

    Details: A Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in the sudoers configuration in cscreen of openSUSE Factory allows any local users to gain the privileges of the tty and dialout groups and access and manipulate any running cscreen seesion. This issue affects: openSUSE Factory cscreen version 1.2-1.3 and prior versions.

    References: https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/21xxx/CVE-2022-21946.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-21946, https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196451

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- ec5bffe40e3074ac208c1b233f4ff5ae305469c8
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    v1.3

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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