CVE-2022-29800 (GCVE-0-2022-29800)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-21 18:21 – Updated: 2025-05-28 13:53
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
A time-of-check-time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability was found in networkd-dispatcher. This flaw exists because there is a certain time between the scripts being discovered and them being run. An attacker can abuse this vulnerability to replace scripts that networkd-dispatcher believes to be owned by root with ones that are not.
Severity
4.7 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-05-28 13:52 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2022/04/2… | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | networkd-dispatcher |
Affected:
uknown
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