CVE-2022-22942

high

Published 2022-03-10 · Modified 2022-03-14

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.0

Description

The vmwgfx driver contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability that allows unprivileged users to gain access to files opened by other processes on the system through a dangling 'file' pointer.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Metasploit modules

exploit_linux/local/vmwgfx_fd_priv_esc rank 400

vmwgfx Driver File Descriptor Handling Priv Esc

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`5.15.15-2`
sid	Fixed	`5.15.15-2`
forky	Fixed	`5.15.15-2`
bullseye	Fixed	`5.10.92-2`
bookworm	Fixed	`5.15.15-2`

Red Hat Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
8	Fixed	—

Rocky Linux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
8	Fixed	—

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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