CVE-2022-29549

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    CVE-2022-29549

    Published: 18 Aug 2022Last Modified: 11 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://software.firstworks.com/p/getting-started-with-firebird.html, , http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168367/Qualys-Cloud-Agent-Arbitrary-Code-Execution.html, http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Sep/10, https://blog.qualys.com/product-tech/2022/08/15/qualys-security-updates-cloud-agent-for-linux, https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

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    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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