CVE-2022-3560

MEDIUM

pesign < 116 - Path Traversal via Symbolic Link Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A flaw was found in pesign. The pesign package provides a systemd service used to start the pesign daemon. This service unit runs a script to set ACLs for /etc/pki/pesign and /run/pesign directories to grant access privileges to users in the 'pesign' group. However, the script doesn't check for symbolic links. This could allow an attacker to gain access to privileged files and directories via a path traversal attack.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2135420#c0

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 10.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-22
Status published
Products (6)
fedoraproject/fedora 36
fedoraproject/fedora 37
pesign_project/pesign < 116
redhat/enterprise_linux 7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 8.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 9.0
Published Feb 02, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026