CVE-2022-31253

Summary

CVECVE-2022-31253
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-11-09 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-11-10 16:15:00 UTC
DescriptionA Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in openldap2 of openSUSE Factory allows local attackers with control of the ldap user or group to change ownership of arbitrary directory entries to this user/group, leading to escalation to root. This issue affects: openSUSE Factory openldap2 versions prior to 2.6.3-404.1.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-426

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Opensuse Openldap2 All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Bug 1202931 – VUL-0: CVE-2022-31253: openldap2: /usr/lib/openldap/start allows ldap user/group to recursively chown arbitrary directory trees to itself CONFIRM bugzilla.suse.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Matthias Gerstner from SUSE

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