CVE-2022-29800

Description

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.

References

https://www.tenable.com/cyber-exposure/tenable-2022-threat-landscape-report

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2022/04/26/microsoft-finds-new-elevation-of-privilege-linux-vulnerability-nimbuspwn/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3