CVE-2011-2922

7.8 highEPSS 0.7%

High (7.8) in ktsuss project ktsuss. EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ktsuss versions 1.4 and prior spawns the GTK interface to run as root. This can allow a local attacker to escalate privileges to root and use the "GTK_MODULES" environment variable to possibly execute arbitrary code.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 52% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-20
Published: 2019-11-19
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

ktsuss_project:ktsuss

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2922
https://lwn.net/Articles/477678/
https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/109154/Gentoo-Linux-Security-Advisory-201201-15.html
https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/cve/CVE-2011-2922
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2922

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