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CVE-2022-31214

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 0.39%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2022-06-09 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8. It affects Linux.

CVE
CVE-2022-31214
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
0.39%
Linux

Original NVD Description

A Privilege Context Switching issue was discovered in join.c in Firejail 0.9.68. By crafting a bogus Firejail container that is accepted by the Firejail setuid-root program as a join target, a local attacker can enter an environment in which the Linux user namespace is still the initial user namespace, the NO_NEW_PRIVS prctl is not activated, and the entered mount namespace is under the attacker's control. In this way, the filesystem layout can be adjusted to gain root privileges through execution of available setuid-root binaries such as su or sudo.

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